We will be looking at two poems tomorrow. Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt reflects the upper and middle classes' ethos of duty, honour and glory for Empire, while Recessional by Rudyard Kipling, takes a more philosophical line, with an acceptance that the British Empire, like all the empires before it, will eventually decline and fade.
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