Explore "The Light that Failed" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Then we brought the lances down, then the bugles blew, / When we went to Kandahar, ridin' two an' two, / Ridin', ridin', ridin', two an' two, / Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra, / All the way to Kandahar, ridin' two an' two. / -_Barrack-Room Ballad_.
"I'm not angry with the British public, but I wish we had a few thousand of them scattered among these rooks. They wouldn't be in such a hurry to get at their morning papers then. Can't you imagine the regulation householder-Lover of Justice, Constant Reader, Paterfamilias, and all that lot-frizzling on hot gravel?"