Lest we forget."
This author wrote "may the jealous Gods prevent our fierce and uncontrolled descent" in a spoof of Ben Jonson called "To a Lady, Persuading her to a Car." He claimed that "all our pomp of yesterday / is one with Nineveh and Tyre" in a poem whose first four stanzas end with the line "Lest we forget -- Lest we forget." He wrote of how "dawn comes up like thunder outer China / 'crost the Bay" in a poem whose speaker imagines a girl "by the old (*) Moulmein pagoda." This author of "Recessional" wrote about the Colonel's son chasing after the horse-thief Kamal but eventually growing to respect him in a poem that begins "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." In another poem, the narrator states that an abused water-carrier who took a bullet for him is "a better man than I am." For 10 points, name this British author of "Mandalay", "Gunga Din" and "If".
This author wrote "may the jealous Gods prevent our fierce and uncontrolled descent" in a spoof of Ben Jonson called "To a Lady, Persuading her to a Car."
Rudyard Kipling [or Joseph Rudyard Kipling]