Recessional By Rudyard Kipling 1897 God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,

" Recessional " is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was composed for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, in 1897. "Recessional" contains five stanzas of six lines each.

Recessional (After Queen Victoria’s Jubilee) God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine– Lord God of …

Although the phrase ‘lest we forget’ is now closely associated with Remembrance Sunday and war remembrance more generally, it actually originated in a poem written almost twenty years …

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Notes 1] Recessional: hymn sung at a service's end when the clergy and choir exit. "This poem was published on the 17th July 1897, towards the close of the celebration of Queen Victoria's …