This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Rudyard Kipling's work Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1st edition, 1886; 1899 facsimile reprint; and the Sussex edition, 1938). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the Internet Archive:
The template takes the following parameters:
|year=
– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1899 facsimile reprint, specify |year=1899
. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1886).|2=
or |page=
– mandatory in some cases: as the work is unpaginated, use this parameter to specify the "page number" assigned by Google Books ("GB") to the URL of the webpage to be linked to. For example, if the URL is https://books.google.com/books?id=Td8_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP13
, specify |page=13
. This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.|year=
– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the Sussex edition specify |year=1938
. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st edition (1886).|2=
or |page=
, or |pages=
– mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
|pages=10–11
.|pageref=
to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).|1=
, |chapter=
, or |poem=
– mandatory: the name of the "chapter" or poem quoted from. If quoting from one of the poems indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:Parameter value | Result | First page number | |
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1899 facsimile reprint | Sussex edition (1938) | ||
Departmental Ditties | |||
A Code of Morals | A Code of Morals | GB page 31 | page 20 |
General Summary | General Summary | GB page 13 | page 3 |
Municipal | Municipal (1887) | — | page 36 |
Public Waste | Public Waste | GB page 25 | page 23 |
Other Verses | |||
To the Unknown Goddess | To the Unknown Goddess | GB page 37 | page 45 |
Diana of Ephesus | Diana of Ephesus (1888) | — | page 56 |
|3=
, |text=
, or |passage=
– the passage to be quoted.|footer=
– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=
– use |brackets=on
to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.{{RQ:Kipling Departmental Ditties|year=1899|poem=A Code of Morals|page=31|passage=Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, / And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, / To sit on a rock with a '''heliograph'''; but ere he left he taught / His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles at naught. / And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair; / So {{w|Cupid}} and {{w|Apollo}} linked, ''per'' '''heliograph''', the pair.}}
; or{{RQ:Kipling Departmental Ditties|year=1899|A Code of Morals|31|Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, / And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, / To sit on a rock with a '''heliograph'''; but ere he left he taught / His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles at naught. / And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair; / So {{w|Cupid}} and {{w|Apollo}} linked, ''per'' '''heliograph''', the pair.}}
{{RQ:Kipling Departmental Ditties|year=1938|poem=Diana of Ephesus|page=57|passage=The clear voice faltered—the lithe form stooped— / The white hands '''wavered'''—the bright head drooped— / The trumpets quavered, the lights burned blue, / And the Goddess died—as Goddesses do.}}
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