Template:RQ:Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Rudyard Kipling's work Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (3rd edition, 1892); the 1st collected edition published in the same year, →OCLC, is not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to an online edition of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.

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• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads|poem=Oonts|page=27|passage=Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the ] camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the '''oont''' , O the '''oont''', O the commissariat '''oont'''! / With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes; / We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt, / An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads|Oonts|27|Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the ] camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the '''oont''' , O the '''oont''', O the commissariat '''oont'''! / With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes; / We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt, / An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.}}
• Result:
  • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Oonts (North India Transport Train)”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. , →OCLC, page 27:

    Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? / It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' down to fire; / But it's everlastin' waitin' on an everlastin' road / For the commissariat camel an' 'is commissariat load. / O the oont , O the oont, O the commissariat oont! / With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes; / We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt, / An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.

• {{RQ:Kipling Seven Seas}} – for other poems in the "Barrack-Room Ballads" series