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Title: The Years Between

Author: Rudyard Kipling

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Language: English

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THE YEARS BETWEEN

by

RUDYARD KIPLING

[Illustration]

Methuen and Co. Ltd.
36 Essex Street W.C.
London
First Published in 1919

DEDICATION

TO THE SEVEN WATCHMEN

_Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower,
Watching what had come upon mankind,
Showed the Man the Glory and the Power,
And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind.
'All things on Earth your will shall win you'
('Twas so their counsel ran)
'But the Kingdom--the Kingdom is within you,'
Said the Man's own mind to the Man.
For time, and some time--
As it was in the bitter years before,
So it shall be in the over-sweetened hour--
That a man's mind is wont to tell him more
Than Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower._

CONTENTS

PAGE
BENEFACTORS, THE 96
CHOICE, THE 35
'CITY OF BRASS, THE' 148
COVENANT, THE 13
CRAFTSMAN, THE 91
DEAD KING, THE 100
DEATH-BED, A 106
DECLARATION OF LONDON, THE 6
DEDICATION v
EN-DOR 55
EPITAPHS 135
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, THE 128
'FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE' 21
FRANCE 15
GEHAZI 109
GETHSEMANE 85
HOLY-WAR, THE 38
HOUSES, THE