The Five Nations Vol II
Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His children’s stories and poems have been enduring expressions of his times, many tied to India, the country of his birth.
Five Nations is a collection of poems covering the wide range of the British Kingdom at the time, though there is some debate as to what the Five Nations refer. There are two groups of poems in these volumes, unnamed poems and the service poems. Many of these have military themes and range over many wars of the British Empire. Volume II contains poems of the Five Nations and Service Poems. - Summary by Larry Wilson (1 hr 26 min)
Chapters
| The Old Issue | 6:06 | Read by Ellies |
| Bridge-Guard in the Karroo | 3:28 | Read by Jane Robb |
| The Lesson | 2:57 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
| The Files | 3:37 | Read by Saumya Madhan |
| The Reformers | 3:02 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Dirge of Dead Sisters | 3:02 | Read by Chris Pyle |
| The Islanders | 5:30 | Read by SouthpawSkip |
| The Peace of Dives | 6:50 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| South Africa | 3:06 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Settler | 2:29 | Read by Josh Bothell. |
| Service Songs | 0:48 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Chant-Pagan | 3:54 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| M. I. | 6:22 | Read by K.L. Zuehlke |
| Columns | 3:43 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Parting of the Columns | 3:39 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Two Kopjes | 3:26 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Instructor | 1:10 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Boots | 2:27 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| The Married Man | 2:09 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Stellenbosh | 3:00 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Half-Ballad of Waterval | 1:41 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Piet | 4:00 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| 'Willful-Missing' | 2:02 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Ubique | 2:55 | Read by Patrick Wallace |
| The Return | 3:25 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
| Recessional | 1:55 | Read by Larry Wilson |