The Decline of the West

Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)



Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan
brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the
Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of
the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the
East."

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCBDECE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 309
Words 62
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. more…

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