Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.