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Rudyard Kipling's Verse

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ELEPHANTS OF THE GUN-TEAMS

We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules,
The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees.
We bowed our necks to service—they ne'er were loosed again,—
Make way there, way for the ten-foot teams
Of the Forty-Pounder train!