Show I KITCHENEH5 SCSOOL Rudyard Kipling1 in London Times I Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedan school master I mas-ter of the Bengal Infantry some time I on service at Suakin when he heard that the sirdar was talking money from the I English to build a Madrissa for Hubsrees i a college for the Soudanese i Oh Hubshee carry your shoes In > your I hand and bow your head on your breast This is the message ot KItchensr who did I not break you in Jest It was permitted to him to fulfill the long appointed years Reaching tho end ordained of old over your dead Emirs I Ho stamped only before your walls and I the Tomb ye knew was dust He gathered up under his armpits all the swords of your trust S He set a guard ofi your granaries securing se-curing the weak from the strong He said Go work the waterwheels that were abolished so long He sad Go safely being abashed I have accomplished by vow That was the mercy of Kitchener Cometh his madness now He does not desire as ye desire nor devise de-vise as ye devise He Is preparing a second host an army to make you wise Not at the mouth of his cleanlipped guns shall ye learn his name again But letter by letter and many letters at the mouth of his chosen men Ho has gone bade to his own city not seeking presents or bribes But openly aSKing the English for money to buy you Hakims and scribes Knowing that ye > are forfeit by battle ana have no right to live He begs for mone rigt bring you learning and all the English give I is their treasure it is their plcsure thus are their hearts inclined For Allah crete the English madthe maddest of all mankind They do not consider the Meaning of Things they consult not creed or clan Behold they clap the slave on the back and behold he becometh a man They terribly carpet the earth with dead and before the cannon cool They walk unarmed by two and threes to call the living to school How is this reason which is their season sea-son to judge a scholars worth By casting a bal at three straight sticks and defending the same with a fourth But this they do which is doubtless a spell and other matters more strange Until by the operation of years the hearts of their scholars change Till these maka como and go great boats or engines upon the rail But always tho English watch nearby to prOD them when they fall Till these make laws > of their own choice and judges of their own blood And all the mad English obey the judges and say I a the law is JudgeS Certainly they were mad from of old but I think one new thing That the magic whereby they work their magic wherefrom their fortunes spring May be that they show all people their magic and ask no price in return Wherefore since ye are bond to that I magic 0 Hubshee make haste and learn Certainly also is Kitchener mad But one sure thing I know I he who broke you be minded to teach to his Madrissa you Madrss go Go and carry jour shoes in your hand and bow your head on your breast For he who did not slay you In sport he will not teach you in jest |