 | 1919 - 1066 psl.
...years ago over 'The Truce of the Bear' had better find another joke. One does not base the lightness of Kipling on his merely having been a little less...nowadays, to listen, would deny it — might even call it 'chawrinisme de clocher.' The reply is that people actually do feel as Kipling says they do. He has... | |
 | 1925 - 914 psl.
...poetry to express his feeling about the English soil are frequently lifeless, but lines flash out: So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...Memory, Use, and Love make live Us and our fields alike. (But his best poetry is in prose) Or, if you prefer, his best prose is damaskeened with exquisite poetry.... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 706 psl.
...by which its author is known of all men, is " Sussex," with these among a dozen exquisite stanzas : So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...Clay of the pit whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow clay. God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 230 psl.
...Piddinghoe's Begilded dolphin veers, And black beside wide-banked Ouse Lie down our Sussex steers. So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small. Ordains for each one spot shall... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 236 psl.
...Piddinghoe's Begilded dolphin veers, And black beside wide-banked Ouse Lie down our Sussex steers. So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. 70 God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 236 psl.
...Piddinghoe's Begilded dolphin veers, And black beside wide-banked Ouse Lie down our Sussex steers. So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 420 psl.
...windy Piddinghoe's Begilded dolphin veers And red beside wide-banked Ouse Lie down our Sussex steers. So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 390 psl.
...windy Piddinghoe's Begilded dolphin veers And red beside wide-banked Ouse Lie down our Sussex steers. So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall... | |
 | Robert Pickett Scott - 1907 - 452 psl.
...Piddinghoe's Begilded dolphin veers, And black beside wide-banked Ouse Lie down our Sussex steers. So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1915 - 372 psl.
...windy Piddinghoe's Begilded dolphin veers, And red beside wide-banked Ouse Lie down our Sussex steers. So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic...whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall... | |
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So to the land our hearts we give Till the sure magic strike, And Memory, Use, and Love make live Us and our fields alike — That deeper than our speech and thought, Beyond our reason's sway, Clay of the pit whence we were wrought Yearns to its fellow-clay. 
