by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
There's a convict more in the Central...
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!
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First published in Macmillan's Magazine, January 1890Text Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), no title, appears in Many Inventions, in The Lost Legion, first published 1893 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 - 1961), "The running of Shindand", 1902-3, published 1922. [TTTBBB chorus a cappella] [text verified 1 time]
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