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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad Of East And West</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,<br> Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;<br> But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,<br> When two strong men stand face to face,<br> tho' they come from the ends of the earth!<br> <br>Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border-side,<br>And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride:<br>He has lifted her out of the stable-door between the dawn and the day,<br>And turned the calkins upon her feet, and ridden her far away.<br>Then up and spoke the Colonel's son that led a troop of the Guides:<br>"Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kamal hides?"<br>Then up and spoke Mahommed Khan, the son of the Ressaldar:<br>"If ye know the track of the morning-mist, ye know where his pickets are.<br>At dusk he harries the Abazai -- at dawn he is into Bonair,<br>But he must go by Fort Bukloh to his own place to fare,<br>So if ye gallop to Fort Bukloh as fast as a bird can fly,<br>By the favour of God ye may cut him off ere he win to the Tongue of Jagai.<br>But if he be past the Tongue of Jagai, right swiftly turn ye then,<br>For the length and the breadth of that grisly plain is sown with Kamal's men.<br>There is rock to the left, and rock to the right, and low lean thorn between,<br>And ye may hear a breech-bolt snick where never a man is seen."<br>The Colonel's son has taken a horse, and a raw rough dun was he,<br>With the mouth of a bell and the heart of Hell<br> and the head of the gallows-tree.<br>The Colonel's son to the Fort has won, they bid him stay to eat --<br>Who rides at the tail of a Border thief, he sits not long at his meat.<br>He's up and away from Fort Bukloh as fast as he can fly,<br>Till he was aware of his father's mare in the gut of the Tongue of Jagai,<br>Till he was aware of his father's mare with Kamal upon her back,<br>And when he could spy the white of her eye, he made the pistol crack.<br>He has fired once, he has fired twice, but the whistling ball went wide.<br>"Ye shoot like a soldier," Kamal said. "Show now if ye can ride."<br>It's up and over the Tongue of Jagai, as blown dustdevils go,<br>The dun he fled like a stag of ten, but the mare like a barren doe.<br>The dun he leaned against the bit and slugged his head above,<br>But the red mare played with the snaffle-bars, as a maiden plays with a glove.<br>There was rock to the left and rock to the right, and low lean thorn between,<br>And thrice he heard a breech-bolt snick tho' never a man was seen.<br>They have ridden the low moon out of the sky, their hoofs drum up the dawn,<br>The dun he went like a wounded bull, but the mare like a new-roused fawn.<br>The dun he fell at a water-course -- in a woful heap fell he,<br>And Kamal has turned the red mare back, and pulled the rider free.<br>He has knocked the pistol out of his hand -- small room was there to strive,<br>"'Twas only by favour of mine," quoth he, "ye rode so long alive:<br>There was not a rock for twenty mile, there was not a clump of tree,<br>But covered a man of my own men with his rifle cocked on his knee.<br>If I had raised my bridle-hand, as I have held it low,<br>The little jackals that flee so fast were feasting all in a row:<br>If I had bowed my head on my breast, as I have held it high,<br>The kite that whistles above us now were gorged till she could not fly."<br>Lightly answered the Colonel's son: "Do good to bird and beast,<br>But count who come for the broken meats before thou makest a feast.<br>If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away,<br>Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay.<br>They will feed their horse on the standing crop,<br> their men on the garnered grain,<br>The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain.<br>But if thou thinkest the price be fair, -- thy brethren wait to sup,<br>The hound is kin to the jackal-spawn, -- howl, dog, and call them up!<br>And if thou thinkest the price be high, in steer and gear and stack,<br>Give me my father's mare again, and I'll fight my own way back!"<br>Kamal has gripped him by the hand and set him upon his feet.<br>"No talk shall be of dogs," said he, "when wolf and gray wolf meet.<br>May I eat dirt if thou hast hurt of me in deed or breath;<br>What dam of lances brought thee forth to jest at the dawn with Death?"<br>Lightly answered the Colonel's son: "I hold by the blood of my clan:<br>Take up the mare for my father's gift -- by God, she has carried a man!"<br>The red mare ran to the Colonel's son, and nuzzled against his breast;<br>"We be two strong men," said Kamal then, "but she loveth the younger best.<br>So she shall go with a lifter's dower, my turquoise-studded rein,<br>My broidered saddle and saddle-cloth, and silver stirrups twain."<br>The Colonel's son a pistol drew and held it muzzle-end,<br>"Ye have taken the one from a foe," said he;<br> "will ye take the mate from a friend?"<br>"A gift for a gift," said Kamal straight; "a limb for the risk of a limb.<br>Thy father has sent his son to me, I'll send my son to him!"<br>With that he whistled his only son, that dropped from a mountain-crest --<br>He trod the ling like a buck in spring, and he looked like a lance in rest.<br>"Now here is thy master," Kamal said, "who leads a troop of the Guides,<br>And thou must ride at his left side as shield on shoulder rides.<br>Till Death or I cut loose the tie, at camp and board and bed,<br>Thy life is his -- thy fate it is to guard him with thy head.<br>So, thou must eat the White Queen's meat, and all her foes are thine,<br>And thou must harry thy father's hold for the peace of the Border-line,<br>And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power --<br>Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur."<br> <br>They have looked each other between the eyes, and there they found no fault,<br>They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt:<br>They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod,<br>On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God.<br>The Colonel's son he rides the mare and Kamal's boy the dun,<br>And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one.<br>And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear --<br>There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer.<br>"Ha' done! ha' done!" said the Colonel's son.<br> "Put up the steel at your sides!<br>Last night ye had struck at a Border thief --<br> to-night 'tis a man of the Guides!"<br> <br> Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,<br> Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;<br> But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,<br> When two strong men stand face to face,<br> tho' they come from the ends of the earth!</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=510906" data-title="The Ballad Of East And West de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho'..."></div> </div> </div>
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