HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUDYARD #KIPLING "…When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier, Go, go, go like a soldier, Go, go, go like a soldier, So-oldier of the Queen! " —the last stanza of “The Young British Soldier,” one of Rudyard Kipling’s Barrack-Room Ballads; left, a recent and well-reviewed account of Kipling's years in India, where he was born on this day in 1865