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Show Kipling Latest Toem. ;IB Following is Kipling's latest poem, "The Row- i 1 1 ' ers," printed in the London Times. It attacks the lj,'B alliance with Germany in the Venezuelan conflict, L A B and has caused a sensation in the two countries: L I WH' THE ROWERS. cH The banked oars fell, an hundred strong, fh. jtl'K And backed and thrashed the ground; mw i But bitter was the rowers' song mi a f" B As they brought the warboat round. WS m j ,'K They had no heart for the rally and roar i, J 'B' That makes the whaleback smoke m 4';EtK! When the great blades cleave and hold and leave II m 5 B- As one on the racing stroke. if . & IB They sang, "What reckoning do ye keep, r h, " B And steer her by what star, & u') "WBj Jf we come unscathed from the Southern deep m u , 'B To be wrecked on a Baltic bar? mi 'if LBI "Last night ye swore our voyage was done', 1' j fy 'IB But seaward still we gd; iifr 9B And ye tell' us" of' a secret vow W &',, 'B Ye have made' with an open foe. jmll U 'offa "That we must lie off a ligtitless coast'' ijj. Hi-B And haul and back and' veer, .jm, IB L-aYS And the will" o'f the b'r'ee'd that have5 wronged us 2$ 1 NaYM us most t IE F, f .H For a year5 anil a year and a year. W&W- H "There was never a sliame in Chrlst'endfe- Wife JhB They laiff-iibt' td1 oUr door, W-W "Bat And ye say je' must take" a winter seaf iCfiiA "BBB And be safe' with tifem' once1 more" $Lkil$r"BB ffcpJr!' 'bB "Look south, tile gale is scarce o'er pas'? atJm if 'IbbI That stripeft' and laid us down t - ffImfaBl When we stood forth j buttney stood fasfy' roHsilJaaa And prayed' to see uss drown. iKNufi-iB "The dead itiey mocked are scracely c'olaV ' sew BB Our wounds are bloody yet; ' A l H ?f AaV And ye tell us now that our strength is sold irvf H To help them press for a debt! wii ' " 'Neath all the flags of all mankind mJi 'arl That use upon the seas, wtwl Bi Was there no other fleet to find alllk , That ye strike hands with these? 1P 'li ImSt Wat kSBJ "Of evil times that men could choose B'ffff -al On evil fate to fall, BIh i What brooding judgment let ye loose win '''afl To pick the worst of all? ffiff 'jVa "In sight of peace from the narrow seat? K ti ' all O'er half the world to run, B if t "jH With a cheated crew to league anew Wm m'lH With the Goth and the shameless Hun!" ffi, 1 ' ' J 9 ml' M |