| Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Verse: 1885–1918. 1922. | | | | The Recall |
| | | I AM the land of their fathers. | |
| In me the virtue stays. | |
| I will bring back my children, | |
| After certain days. | |
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| Under their feet in the grasses | 5 |
| My clinging magic runs. | |
| They shall return as strangers. | |
| They shall remain as sons. | |
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| Over their heads in the branches | |
| Of their new-bought, ancient trees, | 10 |
| I weave an incantation | |
| And draw them to my knees. | |
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| Scent of smoke in the evening, | |
| Smell of rain in the night— | |
| The hours, the days and the seasons, | 15 |
| Order their souls aright, | |
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| Till I make plain the meaning | |
| Of all my thousand years— | |
| Till I fill their hearts with knowledge, | |
| While I fill their eyes with tears. | 20 | | | |
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