<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510896" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad of Jakko Hill</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One moment bid the horses wait,<br>Since tiffin is not laid till three,<br>Below the upward path and straight<br>You climbed a year ago with me.<br>Love came upon us suddenly<br>And loosed - an idle hour to kill -<br>A headless, armless armory<br>That smote us both on Jakko Hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah Heaven! we would wait and wait <br>Through Time and to Eternity!<br>Ah Heaven! we could conquer Fate<br>With more than Godlike constancy<br>I cut the date upon a tree -<br>Here stand the clumsy figures still: <br>'10-7-85, A.D.'<br>Damp with the mist of Jakko Hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What came of high resolve and great,<br>And until Death fidelity!<br>Whose horse is waiting at your gate?<br>Whose 'rickshaw-wheels ride over me?<br>No Saint's, I swear; and - let me see<br>To-night what names your programme fill -<br>We drift asunder merrily,<br>As drifts the mist on Jakko Hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">L'ENVOI.<br>Princess, behold our ancient state<br>Has clean departed; and we see<br>'Twas Idleness we took for Fate<br>That bound light bonds on you and me.<br>Amen! Here ends the comedy<br>Where it began in all good will;<br>Since Love and Leave together flee<br>As driven mist on Jakko Hill!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510896" data-title="The Ballad of Jakko Hill de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="One moment bid the horses wait, Since tiffin is not laid till three, Below the upward path and straight You climbed a year ago with me. Love came upon us suddenly And loosed - an idle hour to kill - A headless, armless armory That smote us both on..."></div> </div> </div>

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