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Kipling’s Warning to Empires

By Robin Bates | Published: November 26, 2024

Kipling’s “Recessional,” written as a warning to the British empire, applies as well to America today.

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A Reminder Not to Forget War’s Ravages

By Robin Bates | Published: November 10, 2013

Kipling’s “Recessional” curiously isn’t the imperialistic war poem that would have expected at Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee.

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