Ulster Comments

Kipling is assuming the voice of a Protestant Ulsterman, who wants nothing to do with Rome 9Catholicism) . Ulster wants to stay a part of Britain and not combine with the South to make a new nation-Ireland. In fact this is just what has happened-a divided Ireland because the North wants 'One Law, one Land, one throne'. magnificently expressed.

Even though he was English to the core, he has written here a poem in favour of Ireland, Britain's enemy. England-Protestant: Ireland-Catholic. England-Anglo-Saxon: Ireland-Celtic. A very fine poem about taking the opponent's side, seeing their point of view. I have read no finer poem by Kipling.