Product Description
Condition Good Plus
Published by Macmillan, London
First edition thus 1931
72pp.
Being a selection of Eastern Verses from the poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling, illustrated in colour and line by Donald Maxwell.
CHRISTMAS IN INDIA
Dim dawn behind the tamarisks-the sky is
saffron-yellow -
As the women in the village grind the corn,
And the parrots seek the river side, each calling
to his fellow
That the Day, the staring Eastern Day, is born.
O the white dust on the highway!
O the stenches in the byway!
O the clammy fog that hovers over earth!
And at Home they're making merry 'neath the
white and scarlet berry -
What part have Indias's exiles in their mirth?
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