# Quote — Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads

> When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
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> Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
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> Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
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> And march to your front like a soldier.
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> Front, front, front like a soldier...

- Author: [Rudyard Kipling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling.md)
- Book: [Barrack-Room Ballads](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling#Barrack-Room_Ballads_(1892,_1896)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads/when-first-under

## More from this book

> So I'll meet 'im later on
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> At the place where 'e is gone—
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> Where it's always double drill and no canteen.
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> 'E'll be squattin' on the coals
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> Givin' drink to poor damned souls,
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> An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!
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> Yes, Din! Din! Din!
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> You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
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> Though I've belted you and flayed you,
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> By the livin' Gawd that made you,
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> You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads/so-ill-meet.md)

> For to admire an' for to see,
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> For to be'old this world so wide—
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> It never done no good to me,
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> But I can't drop it if I tried!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads/for-to-admire.md)

> An' I learned about women from 'er.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/barrack-room-ballads/an-i-learned.md)