Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/88

74 We have said of the Sickness—"Where is it?"—and of Death—"It is far from our ken,"—

We have paid a particular visit to the affluent children of men.

We have trodden the mart and the well-curb—we have stooped to the bield and the byre;

And the King may the forces of Hell curb—for the People have all they desire!

Castanets and step-dance:

How beautiful upon the mountains—in peace reclining,

Thus to be assured that our people are unanimously dining.