Literary Quote of the Day

I have eaten your bread and salt,
    I have drunk your water and wine,
The deaths ye died I have watched beside,
    And the lives that ye led were mine.


Was there aught that I did not share
    In vigil or toil or ease, - 
One joy or woe that I did not know,
    Dear hearts across the seas?


I have written the tale of our life
    For a sheltered people's mirth,
In jesting guise - but ye are wise,
    And ye know what the jest is worth.


~ Rudyard Kipling, The Works of Rudyard Kipling