Rudyard Kipling

“ And now my face is scarred to the bone,
And I'm lame maybe from a musket-ball—
Yet I thank God always (and ever shall)
That I fought in a fight the world will applaud;
For the new generations by and bye
Shall be proud of that long September day,
When ten men fled from the face of one,
And the river ran red on its seaward way,
As it flowed through the village of Bokerdun—
Red with the blood that was spilt at Assaye!'
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1882, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929. ”

“ Beat down, in scorn, some weak Egyptian wall,
We are too slothful to give heed to war.
As a gorged Lion will not stir at all,
Although the hunter mock him openly
So we are moveless when the trumpets call. ”

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1936, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 87 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”