The Tory: Perspectives And Poems: Dr Pratt Datta

"For All We Have And Are" By Rudyard Kipling   1914   For all we have and are,  For all our children's fate,  Stand up and take the war.  The Hun is at the gate!  Our world has passed away,  In wantonness o'erthrown.  There is nothing left to-day  But steel and fire and stone!       Though all we knew depart,       The old Commandments stand:—       "In courage kept your heart,       In strength lift up your hand."    Once more we hear the word  That sickened earth of old:—  "No law except the Sword  Unsheathed and uncontrolled."  Once more it knits mankind,  Once more the nations go  To meet and break and bind  A crazed and driven foe.    Comfort, content, delight,  The ages' slow-bought gain,  They shrivelled in a night.  Only ourselves remain  To face the naked days  In silent fortitude,  Through perils and dismays  Renewed and re-renewed.       Though all we made depart,       The old Commandments stand:—       "In patience keep your heart,       In strength lift up your hand."    No easy hope o