Thank you all three for these poems. My father loved reading Kipling. I just may start reading him now...GG
You could read FAR WORSE! There is a reason that he won the Nobel Prize for literature back when it was not politically incorrect to award it to a WASP (horrors!) Even the country where he supposedly represented the oppressive British Raj, India, teaches from his poems and books as part of their history!
Look for “Plain Tales from the Hills,” a short-story collection with a lot of human insight. It’s out in a reasonably priced paperback edition.