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Title: The Seven Seas

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Release Date: January 22, 2009 [eBook #27870]

Language: English

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THE SEVEN SEAS

by

Rudyard Kipling

Author of Many Inventions,
Barrack-Room Ballads,
The Jungle Books,
Etc.

[Illustration]

New York
D. Appleton and Company
1900

Copyright, 1896,
by Rudyard Kipling

This book is also protected by copyright under the laws of Great
Britain, and the several poems contained herein have also been
severally copyrighted in the United States of America.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF BOMBAY V
A SONG OF THE ENGLISH 1
THE FIRST CHANTEY 18
THE LAST CHANTEY 21
THE MERCHANTMEN 26
MCANDREWS' HYMN 31
THE MIRACLES 46
THE NATIVE-BORN 48
THE KING 54
THE RHYME OF THE THREE SEALERS 57
THE DERELICT 71
THE SONG OF THE BANJO 74
"THE LINER SHE'S A LADY" 80
MULHOLLAND'S CONTRACT 83
ANCHOR SONG 87
THE SEA-WIFE 90
HYMN BEFORE ACTION 93
TO THE TRUE ROMANCE 96
THE FLOWERS 100
THE LAST RHYME OF TRUE THOMAS 104
THE STORY OF UNG 113
THE THREE-DECKER 118
AN AMERICAN 123
THE MARY GLOSTER 126
SESTINA OF THE TRAMP-ROYAL 141

BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS.

"BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN"