...1824-19o5l God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle line, Beneath whose aweful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and iron...

...Earlier, in the lull after the MacArthur hysteria, Herb Block, in a Washington Post cartoon titled "The tumult and the shouting dies; the captains and the kings depart," had shown Truman working alone into the night, his desk piled with reports labeled "Korea," "Europe,"...

...Jubilee, he composed "Recessional," a doom-laden work that foretold decline for Britain, not glory: The tumult and the shouting dies; The Captains and the Kings depart . . . Far-called our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday...

...Office ultimatum. It was time to wheel in the big guns. 94 CHAPTER 8 The Captains and the Kings Depart The tumult and the shouting dies The captains and the kings depart. Rudyard Kipling, 'Recessional', 1897 Fortunately, not only Heinz Koeppler had been giving thought to...

...empires must be guided by the injunction in the Book of Common Prayer for 'an humble and contrite heart': God of our fathers, known of old. Lord of our far-flung...be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. The couplet in the poem 'All our pomp of yesterday is one with Nineveh and Tyre' could only reinforce the...

...late Victorian imperialism is also evident in much of Rudyard Kipling's poetry, as in "Recessional": God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung...Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pineLord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!8 In his study of William...

...thought so on the troopship, yes.' 'Yes.' And another time, looking at the red volume on James's knee. The tumult and the shouting dies, The Captains and the Kings depart. 'They don't seem to be departing, sir. Far from it.' 'That's what they want us to do. The Indians....

...comes in his poem Recessional: God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung bat tie- line, Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! KEY PEOPLE GA Henty (1832-1 902) He had...

...English poet, short story writer, and ambivalent apologist for colonialism Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): "God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung...awful Hand we hold / Dominion over palm and pine." 11. That is, Great Britain: an allusion to another of Kipling's patriotic poems, "The Long Trail."...

...trust in God, prayed this prayer in behalf of the British people, which America might do well to copy: "The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart; Still stands our ancient sacrifice, A humble and a contrite heart. Lord, God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget,...