Departmental Ditties

       Table of Contents

       General Summary

       Army Headquarters

       Study of an Elevation, in Indian Ink

       A Legend

       The Story of Uriah

       The Post That Fitted

       Delilah

       What Happened

       Pink Dominoes

       The Man Who Could Write

       Municipal

       A Code of Morals

       The Last Department

       Other Verses

       The Vampire

       To the Unknown Goddess

       The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin

       La Nuit Blanche

       My Rival

       The Lovers' Litany

       A Ballad of Burial

       Divided Destinies

       The Masque of Plenty

       The Mare's Nest

       Possibilities

       Christmas in India

       Pagett, M.P

       The Song of the Women

       A Ballad of Jakko Hill

       The Plea of the Simla Dancers

       The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House

       As the Bell Clinks

       An Old Song

       Certain Maxims of Hafiz

       The Grave of the Hundred Head

       The Moon of Other Days

       The Undertaker's Horse

       The Fall of Jock Gillespie

       Arithmetic on the Frontier

       The Betrothed

       A Tale of Two Cities

      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.