Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/195

"Last night ye had struck at a Border thief—to-night 'tis a man of the Guides!"

Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the two shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth.