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Solo from Libretto of Naulahka

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Solo from Libretto of Naulahka. (1892)
by Rudyard Kipling

One of several verses published in The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, 1892, this one heads Chapter 5

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Now, it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: ‘A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.’

Solo from Libretto of Naulahka.