On the Cafe Table

[Keith (M)]

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At the National Trust property 'Batemans' (former home of Rudyard Kipling).

M240, 21-35mm Vario Elmar-R.

 

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[abrewer]

Simple is better

 

Always

 

Thanks for sharing

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[stuny]

Simple, lovely

[earleygallery]

Do they sell his full range of cakes?

[willeica]

 I have photos of Kipling taken by Father Frank Browne, the Irish Jesuit priest and photographer (famous for his Titanic photos) who had been a chaplain with the Irish Guards. Kipling's son Jack had failed to get into other branches of the services during World War 1 because of short-sightedness, but Rudyard was friendly with the Colonel of the Irish Guards, who accepted him. Jack died in combat at the Battle of Loos. Kipling wrote the poem 'My Boy Jack' to commemorate his son. The simple flower arrangement above reminded me of Jack.

 

“Have you news of my boy Jack?”

Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

“Has any one else had word of him?”
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind —
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.

Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!

 

William

[earleygallery]

My boy Jack was also a play and a film made for TV, which was shown on TV again recently - well worth seeing.

[Keith (M)]

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 I have photos of Kipling taken by Father Frank Browne, the Irish Jesuit priest and photographer (famous for his Titanic photos) who had been a chaplain with the Irish Guards. Kipling's son Jack had failed to get into other branches of the services during World War 1 because of short-sightedness, but Rudyard was friendly with the Colonel of the Irish Guards, who accepted him. Jack died in combat at the Battle of Loos. Kipling wrote the poem 'My Boy Jack' to commemorate his son. The simple flower arrangement above reminded me of Jack.

 

 

William

 

Thank you for the quote and background info.  

[abrewer]

Lovely and poignant, William.

 

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