Well, you annoyed me by the loss of time spent looking for verification of its date, given that half of Kipling's life fell in the 19th century. Kipling was a

Well, you annoyed me by the loss of time spent looking for verification of its date, given that half of Kipling's life fell in the 19th century. Kipling was a genius, with some notable blind spots, to call them no worse. My summary is to say that given the qualities, brave, clever, and honest, groups other than the English got to choose at most two. (OK, the Scots could pick three, also.) I would say that Kipling's genius comes through far more in his fiction than in his verse.