by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

Language: English 
There's a convict more in the Central Jail,
Behind the old mud wall;
There's a lifter less on the Border trail,
And the Queen's Peace over all,
Dear boys,
The Queen's Peace over all!

For we must bear our leader's blame,
On us the shame will fall,
If we lift our hand from a fettered land
And the Queen's Peace over all,
Dear boys,
The Queen's Peace over all!
First published in Macmillan's Magazine, January 1890

Composition:

    Set to music by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 - 1961), "The running of Shindand", 1902-3, published 1922 [ TTTBBB chorus a cappella ]

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