There was never a Queen like Balkis

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There was never a Queen like Balkis
by Rudyard Kipling

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First published in 1902 as part of "Just So Stories", where it appears after, not part of, 'The Butterfly that Stamped'. Kipling does not give the poem a title—it seems that 'True Royalty' was concocted as a title for the 'Poems That Every Child Should Know' anthology, a work which invents its own titles for a number of poems (or extracts therefrom).

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Versions of There was never a Queen like Balkis include:

"There was never a Queen like Balkis", in Just So Stories (1912)
"True Royalty", in Poems That Every Child Should Know (1904), edited by Mary Elizabeth Burt