{"id":12957,"date":"2010-04-08T01:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/04\/08\/12957.html"},"modified":"2010-04-08T01:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T08:05:50","slug":"two-bits-of-kipling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/04\/08\/two-bits-of-kipling\/","title":{"rendered":"Two bits of Kipling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Years ago, back in the Usenet days, someone used to have as their .signature a verse that I quite liked; but it was unattributed, and my occasional desultory attempts to determine its provenance over the years have met with failure.<\/p>\n<p>Until now. Turns out it's the first stanza of a Kipling poem called \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipling.org.uk\/poems_dawnwind.htm\">The Dawn Wind<\/a>,\" written for a book by C.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;L. Fletcher called <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipling.org.uk\/rg_riverstale1.htm\">A School History of England<\/a><\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not as fond of the rest of the poem, but here's that first stanza:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,<\/p>\n<p>You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.<\/p>\n<p>And the trees in the shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,<\/p>\n<p>And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I also like the first few lines of another of the poems from that book, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipling.org.uk\/poems_drake.htm\">With Drake in the Tropics<\/a>\":<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>South and far south below the Line,<\/p>\n<p>Our Admiral leads us on,<\/p>\n<p>Above, undreamed-of planets shine&mdash;<\/p>\n<p>The stars we know are gone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think <cite>The Stars We Know<\/cite> would make a good title for a science fiction story collection.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, back in the Usenet days, someone used to have as their .signature a verse that I quite liked;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-verse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}