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HARVARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT, 1896,

BY RUDYARD KIPLING.

This book is also protected by copyright
under the laws of Great Britain, and the sev-
eral poems contained herein have also been
severally copyrighted in the United States
of America.

THE Cities are full of pride,
Challenging each to each-

This from her mountain-side,

That from her burthened beach.

They count their ships full tale-
Their corn and oil and wine,
Derrick and loom and bale,

And rampart's gun-flecked line;

City by city they hail :

"Hast aught to match with mine?"

And the men that breed from them

They traffic up and down,

But cling to their cities' hem

As a child to the mother's gown.