Rudyard Kipling:
The Complete Novels and Stories
The Light that Failed (1891)
The Naulahka (1892)
‘Captains Courageous’ (1896)
Kim (1901)
Plain Tales From the Hills (1888)
Soldiers Three (1888)
The Story of the Gadsbys (1888)
In Black and White (1888)
Under the Deodars (1888)
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888)
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories (1888)
Life’s Handicap (1891)
Many Inventions (1893)
The Jungle Book (1894)
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
The Day’s Work (1898)
Stalky & Co. (1899)
Just So Stories (1902)
Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Actions and Reactions (1909)
Abaft the Funnel (1909)
Rewards and Fairies (1910)
A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
The Eyes of Asia (1918)
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The Light
that Failed
by Rudyard Kipling
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia 1891
the light that failed
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Dedication
If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine
I know whose tears would come down to me,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
Preface
This is the story of The Light that Failed as it was originally conceived