 It was first collected into a book in "Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses" in 1892.It subsequently appeared in several collections of Kipling's verse, including "Early Verse" in 1900, "Inclusive Verse" in 1919, and "Definitive Verse" in 1940.It appears also in the 1936 "A Kipling Pageant", and T. S. Eliot's 1941 "A Choice of Kipling’s Verse".