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"Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1]"Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
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The Five Nations, a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), was first published in late 1903, both in the United Kingdom [1] and the U.S.A. [2] Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably "Recessional"" in 1897), sometimes in different versions.
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Title page for an 1801 edition of Lessons for Children, part I. Lessons for Children is a series of four age-adapted reading primers written by the prominent 18th-century British poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Published in 1778 and 1779, the books initiated a revolution in children's literature in the Anglo-American world.
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In most reproductions of the poem's text I've seen (including that in the Wikisource link), the "Try" stanza is the 4th stanza out of 8, between the "Don't" Stanza and the "Count" stanza. However, in the reproduction in the Wikipedia article, the "Try" stanza is moved to be the 8th stanza, all else being left in place.