English poem
Plain Tales from the Hills/The Broken-Link Handicap
While the snaffle holds, or the "long-neck" stings, While the big beam tilts, or the last bell rings, While horses are horses to train and to race, Then women and wine take a second place For me—for me— While a short "ten-three" Has a field to squander or fence to face!
More by Rudyard Kipling
- Plain Tales from the Hills/In the Pride of his Youth
- Plain Tales from the Hills/Kidnapped
- Plain Tales from the Hills/The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly
- Plain Tales from the Hills/The Bisara of Pooree
- Plain Tales from the Hills/The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case
- Plain Tales from the Hills/The Daughter of the Regiment
- Plain Tales from the Hills/The Madness of Private Ortheris
- Plain Tales from the Hills/The Other Man