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.