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Original text - English - Lo, all our..

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Title	Lo, all our..
Text to be translated Submitted by itsatrap100	Source language: English Far-called our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.
Remarks about the translation	Rudyard Kipling

6 January 2009 21:18

Last messages

	Author	Message
		16 February 2009 01:01
	itsatrap100 Number of messages: 279	This text seems to appear twice in the list of translations*.
		30 January 2009 22:47
	Francky5591 Number of messages: 12396	Hello itsatrap100, could you go to the other one and post the same comment as you did, just add "*" after "translations." thanks a lot!
		16 February 2009 01:06
	itsatrap100 Number of messages: 279	Sorry, I didn't see this until now. The star appears in both.
		13 September 2010 12:44
	itsatrap100 Number of messages: 279	This is from a poem called "Recessional" by Rudyard Kipling composed during Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1897. During this time the British Empire was probably at its height, and acted as a global policeman via control of the seas. I placed this here because there is another empire in control of the high seas today that is similar to the old British Empire. Kipling's poem warns of becoming drunk with power - but what did he really mean ? After all, an empire could never form unless a group has become drunk with power to begin with.