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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511028" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Legend of the Foreign Office</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rajah of Kolazai, <br>Drinketh the &quot;simpkin&quot; and brandy peg, <br>Maketh the money to fly, <br>Vexeth a Government, tender and kind,<br>Also -- but this is a detail -- blind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Rustum Beg of Kolazai -- slightly backward Native State --<br>Lusted for a C.S.I. -- so began to sanitate.<br>Built a Gaol and Hospital -- nearly built a City drain --<br>Till his faithful subjects all thought their ruler was insane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange departures made he then -- yea, Departments stranger still:<br>Half a dozen Englishmen helped the Rajah with a will,<br>Talked of noble aims and high, hinted of a future fine<br>For the State of Kolazai, on a strictly Western line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fajah Rustum held his peace; lowered octroi dues a half;<br>Organised a State Police; purified the Civil Staff;<br>Settled cess and tax aftresh in a very liberal way;<br>Cut temptations of the flesh -- also cut the Bukhshi's pay;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roused his Secretariat to a fine Mahratta fury,<br>By an Order hinting at supervision of dasturi;<br>Turned the State of Kolazai very nearly upside-down;<br>When the end of May was night waited his achievement's crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the Birthday Honours came. Sad to state and sad to see,<br>Stood against the Rajah's name nothing more than C.I.E.!. . .<br>Things were lively for a week in the State of Kolazai,<br>Even now the people speak of that time regretfully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How he disendowed the Gaol -- stopped at once the City drain;<br>Turned to beauty fair and frail -- got his senses back again;<br>Doubled taxes, cesses, all; cleared away each new-built thana;<br>Turned the two-lakh Hospital into a superb Zenana;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heaped upon the Bukshi Sahib wealth and honours manifold;<br>Glad himself in Eastern garb -- squeezed his people as of old.<br>Happy, happy Kolazai! Never more will Rustum Beg<br>Play to catch his Viceroy's eye. He prefers the &quot;simpkin&quot; peg.</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>
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Drinketh the &quot;simpkin&quot; and brandy peg, 
Maketh the money to fly, 
Vexeth a Government, tender and kind,
Also -- but this is a detail -- blind.


Rustum Beg of Kolazai -- slightly backward Native State --
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