Rudyard Kipling 
Barrack-Room Ballads (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook] 
With ‚Departmental Ditties‘ and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a pastmaster of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”