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The life of the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Rudyard Kipling was filled with tragedy.

He survived a difficult childhood to go on to become one of the most celebrated authors of his day,

penning such classics as The Jungle Book and Just So Stories.

Here's the history guy with the story of Rudyard Kipling.

Now, an Injia's Sunny Klein, what I used to spend my time,

servant of Her Majesty, the Queen, of all the black-faced crew,

the finest man I knew was regimental beastie, Gungadin.

Was din, din, din, you limping lump of brick dust, Gung it in.

High, slippery, hitheroe, water, bring it to parry low,

you squishy nose, old idol, Gungadin. High slippery hithero! Water bring it to parry low, you squishy nose, old idol, Gungadin.

Written in 1890, the poem Gungadin was one of the most famous poems in the world in its time.

Chronicles the life of a British soldier in India and offers an unlikely hero in the person of Gungadine, the regimental water bearer,

who represents an idea perhaps surprising

to the soldier narrator that a person's worth

is not defined by their race.

The poem has inspired films and songs

and its famous last line,

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