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'Cities and Thrones and Powers'

Rudyard Kipling

First published 1906
Type Poem

  • Sometimes printed or catalogued as "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"
  • Entitled "Cities and Thrones and Powers" in the 1912 collection Songs from Books (arranged by Kipling, not likely to be in this database) and thereafter in some anthologies and secondary sources.
  • First line: "Cities and Thrones and Powers" So listed in the Contents of 1935 collection All the Puck Stories.
  • Untitled, as published October 1906 in the collection Puck of Pook's Hill. In the identical Macmillan editions (UK and Canada, viewed at HathiTrust as e-copy of the latter), the poem is printed on page 139, between the chapter title "A Centurion of the Thirtieth", p137, and the first page of the story "A Centurion of the Thirtieth", p141.
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Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1906 Puck of Pook's Hill Macmillan of Canada Collection 139
October 1906 Puck of Pook's Hill Macmillan and Co. Collection 139
October 1906 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Doubleday, Page & Company Collection 123
October 1906 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 137
1913 Puck of Pook's Hill Charles Scribner's Sons Collection 137
1935 Cover All the Puck Stories Macmillan and Co. Collection 139
1986 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Piccolo Collection 91
May 1987 Cover Puck vom Buchsberg Fischer Taschenbuch Collection |09
June 2005 Puck of Pook's Hill Project Gutenberg Collection |139
February 2008 Cover Puck of Pook's Hill Wildside Press Collection |5.0
July 2008 Puck of Pook's Hill Project Gutenberg Collection |139