Rudyard Kipling 
Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads 

‚Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads‘ by Rudyard Kipling are a series of songs and poems dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling’s best-known works, including the poems ‚Gunga Din‘, ‚Tommy‘, ‚Mandalay‘, and ‚Danny Deever‘, helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. In this volume, he collects poems from his published Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses‘ and ‚The Seven Seas, ‚ as well as brand new works.