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Title: "As The Bell Clinks" Author: Rudyard Kipling [More Titles by Kipling] As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely That was all--the rest was settled by the clinking tonga-bar. For my misty meditation, at the second changin'-station, Played with human speech, I fancied, by the jigging, jolting bar. "She was sweet," thought I, "last season, but 'twere surely wild unreason "What a chance and what an idiot!" clicked the vicious tonga-bar. Heart of man--oh, heart of putty! Had I gone by Kakahutti, "You must call on Her tomorrow!"--post-horn gallop by the bar. Yet a further stage my goal on--we were whirling down to Solon, "'Been accepted or rejected!" banged and clanged the tonga-bar. Then a notion wild and daring, 'spite the income tax's paring, "Simple Rule of Two will prove it," lilted back the tonga-bar. It was under Khyraghaut I mused. "Suppose the maid be haughty-- "Can I tell you ere you ask Her?" pounded slow the tonga-bar. Last, the Tara Devi turning showed the lights of Simla burning, As below the Mall we jingled, through my very heart it tingled-- "Try your luck--you can't do better!" twanged the loosened tonga-bar. -THE END- GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |