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The best known of his patriotic songs, and perhaps his noblest poetic effort, The Recessional , was inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of Victoria's reign. The Truce of the Bear is a warning against Russia. The Native-Born is a toast to the colonies in every clime. Kipling's verse breaks with many of the accepted standards of English verse.
Oh, how selfish I am to permit you to suffer, who have been so kind to me!" Rejecting his entreaties, she made him put it on again, hiding her own suffering. "Hearken! there sounds the organ for the recessional!" she continued. "Soon the people will be coming out. I will sing the same songs that my sister Henriette and I used to sing.
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