Recessional

But the fight is still on, and, gentlemen, will you let me suggest that when you go home tonight you spend two minutes in re-reading one of Kipling's poems, the one which he called "Recessional" - perhaps one of the finest things he did-and that after re-reading it you might spend two more minutes thinking about it, especially the verse which runs like this

St. George Meets New Dragons 1945

A great many people in late imperial Britain knew perfectly well that the empire on which the sun famously never set - critics suggested that this was because God Himself wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark - had had its day and was itself setting; the lines of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Recessional" -

The Archdruid Report John Michael Greer 2010

A great many people in late imperial Britain knew perfectly well that the empire on which the sun famously never set - critics suggested that this was because God Himself wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark - had had its day and was itself setting; the lines of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Recessional" -

The Archdruid Report 2010

Kipling had rejected overtures to become England's official poet laureate in the late 1890s, but on the strength of "Recessional" and the many poems in The Five Nations commemorating the English fighting forces in the Boer War, he had come to be spoken of as "the Laureate of Empire."

Who Was Kipling? 2007

(The story goes that Norton's daughter, Sally, rescued the first draft of Kipling's patriotic ode "Recessional" from the dust-bin and persuaded him to send the poem to The Times of London, whereupon it was published on the same page as Queen Victoria's proclamation on her Diamond Jubilee.)

Who Was Kipling? 2007

I wish now that I had written "Recessional" before Kipling got to it.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

Fled beyond recall is the memory of what I played, except that he asked if I had the de Koven "Recessional" — Kipling's verses; and he told me he sometimes bicycled to San Jose to visit friends, and there he had heard the song.

PROLOGUE AND A MEETING 1921

In 1897 he wrote a "Jubilee Ode" which was pronounced to be finer than Kipling's "Recessional" as a piece of national stock-taking.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

The "Recessional" was written for the occasion by Rudyard Kipling (1865 --).

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

Kipling became the most popular man in Mitchell, and the attorney who made the most effective recitation of the 'Recessional' was generally a winner.

Idle Comments 1905