Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads - Rudyard Kipling - 1899 Vintage Hardback hard science fiction "you stand before your ancestors

"you stand before your ancestors now

dooming even peaceful nations to a relentless power struggle

The proof has been revised by my colleague

In the Apache tradition he had a private name

to infiltrate the high society of the old South

Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads - Rudyard Kipling - 1899 Vintage Hardback hard science fiction "you stand before your ancestorsCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Published in 1899. PRELUDE: I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share In vigil or toil or ease, One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear hearts across the seas? I have written the tale of our life For a sheltered people's mirth, In jesting guisebut