Authors

Rudyard Kipling

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Eddi’s Service

Rudyard Kipling’s poem about St Wilfrid’s chaplain and an unusual Christmas congregation.

14

‘The Overland Mail’

A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.

15

‘Recessional’

A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.

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Six Honest Serving-Men

A professional journalist and author recognises that he has met his match

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‘Sussex’

A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.

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‘Hail, Liberty!’

Kipling borrowed from the Greek Independence movement to give thanks for the end of the Great War.