# Quote — Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill

> Five and twenty ponies
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> Trotting through the dark—
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> Brandy for the Parson,
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> 'Baccy for the Clerk.
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> Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie—
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> Watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by!

- Author: [Rudyard Kipling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling.md)
- Book: [Puck of Pook's Hill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/five-and-twenty

## More from this book

> She has no strong white arms to fold you,
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> But the ten-times-fingering weed to hold you—
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> Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/she-has-no-strong.md)

> Cities and Thrones and Powers,
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> Stand in Time's eye,
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> Almost as long as flowers,
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> Which daily die:
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> But, as new buds put forth
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> To glad new men,
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> Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
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> The Cities rise again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/cities-and-thrones.md)

> Of all the trees that grow so fair,
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> Old England to adorn,
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> Greater are none beneath the Sun,
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> Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rudyard-kipling/puck-of-pooks-hill/of-all-the.md)