Arts & Sciences

Barrack-Room Ballads

by Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936

From The Seven Seas (1896)

Arts & Sciences

When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took -- the same as me!

The market-girls an' fishermen,
The shepherds an' the sailors, too,
They 'eard old songs turn up again,
But kep' it quiet -- same as you!

They knew 'e stole; 'e knew they knowed.
They didn't tell, nor make a fuss,
But winked at 'Omer down the road,
An' 'e winked back -- the same as us!

MLA

Kipling, Rudyard. “Barrack-Room Ballads.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/237/.

Chicago

Kipling, Rudyard. “Barrack-Room Ballads.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/237/.

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