From Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling
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effected.
(Cres.) How be-ewtiful upon the Mountains! Hired Band, brasses only, full chorus:-- God bless the Squire And all his rich relations Who teach us poor people We eat our proper rations-- We eat our proper rations, In spite of inundations, Malarial exhalations, And casual starvations, We have, we have, they say we have-- We have our proper rations! Chorus of the Crystallised Facts Before the beginning of years There came to the rule of the State Men with a pair of shears, Men with an Estimate-- Strachey with Muir for leaven, Lytton with locks that fell, Ripon fooling with Heaven, And Temple riding like H--ll! And the bigots took in hand Cess and the falling of rain, And the measure of sifted sand |
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