Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/84

70 So I answered:—"Gentle Bandar, an inscrutable Decree,

"Makes thee a gleesome fleasome Thou, and me a wretched Me.

"Go! Depart in peace, my brother, to thy home amid the pine;

"Yet forget not once a mortal wished to change his lot with thine."