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"Oh, yes," he murmured. "Well ?" "Turn it over," she urged, somewhat breathlessly. He obeyed, and bit his lip angrily. "What of it?" he demanded. "A quotation from Kipling's Recessional a mere commonplace.... Yes; I wrote it." Then his anger suddenly left him. His mind had leaped to the solution of the matter, and the solution appeared to Wesley Elliot as eminently satisfying; it was even amusing.
Verse is a platform that tempts him at one moment into the performance of music-hall turns and the next into stump orations the spiritual home of which is Hyde Park Corner rather than Parnassus. Recessional surprises one like a noble recantation of nearly all the other verse Mr. Kipling has written.
His dauntless courage must brave the anger of the greedy waves and boldly ride them down. Nor must his cup of joy be full until the wished-for land shall greet his eager eyes. =Overweening ambition.= Or, again, the poet may yearn to teach the wrong of overweening, vaulting ambition and he writes "Paradise Lost" and "Recessional."
The God on whom I ever gaze, The God I never once behold, Above the cloud, beneath the clod, The Unseen God, the Unseen God. These words were written during the opening days of the late Spanish-American war. Recessional, Rudyard Kipling. Herbert Spencer, First Principles, passim. Mrs. Barbauld's fine hymn, "As once upon Athenian ground".
While Ascher spoke and while Gorman spoke, she held my glasses in her hand and watched the ships through them. She neither heard nor heeded the things they said. At last she laid the glasses on my knee and began to recite Kipling's "Recessional." She spoke low at first. Gradually her voice grew stronger, and a note of passion, tense and restrained, came into it. She is more than a charming woman.
It's the "Recessional"! This, proudly, from the youngest. "But they had learned it at school, and when I had given them a leg-up and stood watching them urge the ancient down the hillside, I made up my mind that I would visit the school where the teacher told the scholars all about case-moths and taught them to sing the 'Recessional'; and a morning or two later I did.
But, apart from Recessional, most of his political verse is a mere quickstep of bragging and sneering. His prose, certainly, stands a third or a fourth reading, as his verse does not. Even in a world which Henry James and Mr. Conrad have taught to study motives and atmospheres with an almost scientific carefulness, Mr. Kipling's "well-hammered anecdotes," as Mr.
Then, I was just ready to write a luminous description of Yellowstone Falls when I happened upon the one that DeWitt Talmage wrote, and I could see no reason for writing another. So it is. I seem always to be just too late. I wish now that I had written "Recessional" before Kipling got to it. No doubt, the same thing will happen with my farm pedagogy.
Oh, by Gee! I want Pa!" As soon as the noisy and picturesque recessional of Black Angus had vanished, Baldy Pallen set out confidently to capture the wild gander, James Edward. He seemed to expect to tuck him under his arm and walk off with him at his ease. Observing this, the Boy looked around with a solemn wink.
Love me if I live, Love me if I die. What to me is life or death, So that thou, that thou be near. What to me is life or death, So that thou be near, So that thou be near. Copyright, 1885, by Arthur P. Schmidt & Co. There is much contrast between the lightness of his book, "Songs for the Children," and his ponderous setting of Kipling's "Recessional."
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