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ggm · 7 months ago
Anyone looking nonplussed at this, may not know that Kipling co-invented a ritual for induction of Canadian engineers, a ceremony to mark the birth of their career and their role in society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_En...

And this poem is part of it.

I tend to stop at "Kim" but my mother was rather fond of "Stalkey & Co" and "Puck of Pooks hill"