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The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in late 1903, both in the United Kingdom and in U.S.A. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before, sometimes in different versions.

This volume contains a selection of Kipling's best poems: "The Sea and the Hills," "The Bell Buoy," Cruisers," "The Destroyers," "White Horses," "The Second Voyage," "The Broken Men," The Truce of the Bear," etc.

'He hath veiled the crown and hid the sceptre, ' warn the Trumpets, 'He hath changed the fashion of the lies that cloak his will.'Hard die the Kings-ah hard-dooms hard ' declare the Trumpets, Trumpets at the gang-plank where the brawling troop-decks fill Ancient and Unteachable,... Read Full Overview

'He hath veiled the crown and hid the sceptre, ' warn the Trumpets, 'He hath changed the fashion of the lies that cloak his will.'Hard die the Kings-ah hard-dooms hard ' declare the Trumpets, Trumpets at the gang-plank where the brawling troop-decks fill Ancient and Unteachable,... Read Full Overview

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