Pax Britannica
“CHAPTER NINETEEN All by Steam!
Do you wish to make the mountains bare their head And lay their new-cut forests at your feet?
Do you want to turn a river in its bed, Or plant a barren wilderness with wheat?
Shall we pipe aloft and bring you water down From the never-failing cistern of the snows, To work the mills and tramways in your town.
And irrigate your orchards as it flows?
It is easy! Give us dynamite and drills!
Watch the iron-sho...uldered rocks lie down and quake, As the thirsty desert-level floods and fills, And the valley we have dammed becomes a lake.
Rudyard Kipling 19 AMONG the waters of the Indus Basin, stingily watered by the five rivers of the Punjab—Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej—the British created a new country. It was an uninviting part of India.MoreLess
Do you wish to make the mountains bare their head And lay their new-cut forests at your feet?
Do you want to turn a river in its bed, Or plant a barren wilderness with wheat?
Shall we pipe aloft and bring you water down From the never-failing cistern of the snows, To work the mills and tramways in your town.
And irrigate your orchards as it flows?
It is easy! Give us dynamite and drills!
Watch the iron-sho...uldered rocks lie down and quake, As the thirsty desert-level floods and fills, And the valley we have dammed becomes a lake.
Rudyard Kipling 19 AMONG the waters of the Indus Basin, stingily watered by the five rivers of the Punjab—Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej—the British created a new country. It was an uninviting part of India.MoreLess
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