Bagby's Corner

Wheel of Brown

The Stranger By Rudyard Kipling [this was written by Kipling during his 1907 visit to Canada] The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk— I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock They may do ill or well, But they tell the lies I am wonted to, They are used to the lies I tell. And we do not need interpreters When we go to buy and sell. The Stranger within my gates, He may be evil or good, But I cannot tell what powers control- What reasons sway his mood; Nor when the Gods of his far-off land Shall repossess his blood. The men of my own stock, Bitter bad they may be, But, at least, they hear the things I hear, And see the things I see; And whatever I think of them and their likes They think of the likes of me. This was my father's belief And this is also mine: Let the corn be all one sheaf- And the grapes be all one vine, Ere our children's teeth are set on edge By bitter bread and wine.

Empires suddenly collapse because normies cannot imagine collapse and cannot imagine policies that could soften the blow.

When is the OGC going to start running operations from one of these?

Yachts are strange possessions.

The people who print and distribute my books just rejected my recently submitted History of Reconstruction in Louisiana, saying it was due to one of a list of possible reasons. The only reason that makes sense to me is that facsimile reprints of the book are for sale, but my book is not a facsimile reprint, and so is not in the same category. I am appealing the decision.

so true it hurts