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                    BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST - 7                              
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"Ha' done! ha' done!" said the Colonel's son. "Put up the swords at your     
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Last night ye had struck at a Border thief - tonight 'tis a man of the       
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   Guides!"                                                                  
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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,          
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Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;             
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But there is neither East nor West, Border, no Breed, nor Birth,             
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When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the  
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   earth!                                                                    
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                                         Rudyard Kipling                     
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