Kipling’s Call to the Children.

Kipling’s Call to the Children.
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Father in heaven, who lovest all,
Oh, help thy children when they call,
That they may build from age to age
An undefiled heritage.

Teach us to bear the yoke in youth
With steadfastness and careful truth,
That, in our time, thy grace may give
The truth whoreby the nations live.

Land of our birth, our faith, our pride,
For whose dear sake our fathers died:
O Motherland, we pledge to thee
Head, heart, and hand through the years to be.
These arestanzas from the verse with
which Rudyard Kipling concludes his
new hook of fairy tales, “Puck of Pook’s
Hill.” Their presence there would seem
to indicate that the author has had a
purpose in theso tales beyond the mere
telling of several rather interesting
fairy stories. Indeed, of late years it
is reasonably safe to assume that there
is a moral or political purpose in nearly
everything that Kipling writes.