Daily Kipling Poem XV.

[The Beatles]

The Virginity

Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose
From his first love, no matter who she be.
Oh, was there ever sailor free to choose,
That didn’t settle somewhere near the sea?

Myself, it don’t excite me nor amuse
To watch a pack o’ shipping on the sea,
But I can understand my neighbour’s views
From certain things which have occurred to me.

Men must keep touch with things they used to use
To earn their living, even when they are free;
And so come back upon the least excuse�
Same as the sailor settled near the sea.

He knows he’s never going on no cruise
He knows he’s done and finished with the sea
And yet he likes to feel she’s there to use�
If he should ask her�as she used to be.

Even though she cost him all he had to lose,
Even though she made him sick to hear or see,
Still, what she left of him will mostly choose
Her skirts to sit by. How comes such to be?

Parsons in pulpits, tax payers in pews,
Kings on your thrones, you know as well as me,
We’ve only one virginity to lose,
And where we lost it there our hearts will be!

--Rudyard Kipling


Something else to consider for family planning...

[Nuclear Raunch]

Indeed it is quite true. While I would never advise someone to wait until marriage I would most certainly warn anyone that you will always have something for your first. No matter who she is, where she's at, how long it's been etc it will still be there.

Rudyard Kipling kicks butt btw.

[Ruddertail]

Erm, this was allowed past the filtering system because it wasn't very explicit in what it was saying... I think that might be a tad more explicit then we wanted.

[Nuclear Raunch]

What got past the filter?

[The Beatles]

The poem. I PMed it to Ruddertail first. And yes, I second Ruddertail; such discussions can be raised via PM as well, due to the nature of this community/forum.

[ohmyjapan16]

I second that Nukie. Funny, I was researching imperialism in Nigeria and on one of the sites (scroll down a tiny bit), there was "The White Man's Burden." http://users.ju.edu/jclarke/hy150imperialism.htm Check it out.

[The Beatles]

I posted it with some commentary here earlier...
http://frostnflame.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1603

[ohmyjapan16]

Hmm, I knew you posted it, just not with that in-depth into the history part.