Explore "Consequences" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Rosicrucian subtleties / In the Orient had rise; / Ye may find their teachers still / Under Jacatala's Hill. / Seek ye Bombast Paracelsus, / Read what Flood the Seeker tells us / Of the Dominant that runs / Through the cycles of the Suns -- / Read my story last and see / Luna at her apogee.
There are yearly appointments, and two-yearly appointments, and five-yearly appointments at Simla, and there are, or used to be, permanent appointments, whereon you stayed up for the term of your natural life and secured red cheeks and a nice income. Of course, you could descend in the cold weather; for Simla is rather dull then.