FIRST EDITION 
 
Enjoy these unique and little-known writings of Kipling.
 
DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES (from Rudyard Kipling)
I have eaten your bread and salt,
I have drunk your water and wine,
The deaths ye died I have watched beside,
And the lives that ye led were mine.
 
Was there aught that I did not share
In vigil or toil or ease, —
One joy or woe that I did not know,
Dear hearts across the seas ?
 
I have written the tale of our life
For a sheltered people's mirth.
In jesting guise — but ye are wise.
And ye know what the jest is worth.