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The River's Tale, Rudyard Kipling, 1911

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew

Wanted to know what the River knew

For they were young and the Thames was old,

And this is the tale that the river told –

 

'I walk my beat before London Town ,

Five hours up and seven down.

Up I go till I end my run

At Tide-end-town, which is Teddington.

Down I come with the mud in my hands

And plaster it over the Maplin sands.

 

But I'd have you know that these waters of mine

Were once a branch of the River Rhine

When hundreds of miles to the East I went

And England was joined to the Continent

 

I remember the bat-winged lizard birds,

The Age of Ice and the mammoth herds,

And the giant tigers that stalked them down

Through Regent's Park into Camden Town .

 

And I remember like yesterday

The earliest Cockney who came my way

When he pushed through the forest that lined the Strand ,

With paint on his face and a club in his hand.

He was death to feather and fin and fur.

He trapped my beavers at Westminster .

He netted my salmon, he hunted my deer,

He killed my herons off Lambeth Pier.

He fought his neighbour with axes and swords,

Flint or bronze, at  my upper fords,

 

While down at Greenwich for slaves and tin,

The tall Phoenician ships stole in,

And North Sea warboats, painted and gay,

Flashed like dragon-flies, Erith way;

And Norsemen and Negro and Gaul and Greek

Drank with the Britons in Barking Creek,

 

And life was gay, and the world was new,

And I was a mile across at Kew !

But the Roman came with a heavy hand,

And bridged and roaded and ruled the land,

And the Roman left and the Danes blew in –

And that's where your history books begin!'

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The Rivers Tale' - Rudyard Kipling

 

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