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Title: Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses

Author: John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)

Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20370]

Language: English

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Rhymes of the East

AND

Re-collected Verses

BY D U M-D U M

AUTHOR OF
'AT ODD MOMENTS'
'IN THE HILLS'

LONDON
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE
AND COMPANY, LTD.
1905

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TO

MY MOTHER

* * * * *

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Nearly all the verses that now make their first appearance in book
form are reprinted from _Punch_, by kind permission of Messrs.
Bradbury and Agnew. The rest I have taken from two little books that
were published in Bombay during my last (and, I suppose, final) tour
of service in India. They contained a good deal of work that was too
local or topical in interest to stand reproduction, and--especially
the elder, which is out of print--some that I would sooner bury than
perpetuate. The rest I have overhauled, and included in this
re-collection.

Readers in, or of, India have been kind enough to regard my previous
efforts with favour. I hope that this little volume will find them no
less benevolently disposed, and that at the same time it may not be
without interest to those whose knowledge of the Shiny East is derived
from hearsay.

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CONTENTS

NOCTURNE WRITTEN IN AN INDIAN GARDEN,

TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND WITHIN-DOORS,

VALEDICTION TO THE SS. 'ARABIA,' WHEN RETURNING WITH HER PASSENGERS
FROM THE DELHI DURBAR,