The Landau (Praed) by Rudyard Kipling
The Landau (Praed) by Rudyard Kipling

The Landau (Praed)

Rudyard Kipling * Track #6 On The Muse Among the Motors

The Landau (Praed) Annotated

There was a landau deep and wide,
Cushioned for Sleep’s own self to sit on—
The glory of the country-side
From Tanner’s End to Marlow Ditton.
John of the broad and brandied cheek
(Well I recall its eau-de-vie hues! )
Drove staid Sir Ralph five days a week
At speeds which we considered Jehu’s. . . .
But now’ poor John sleeps very sound,
And neither hears nor smells the fuss
Of the young Squire’s nine-hundred-pound—
Er—Mors communis omnibus.
And I who in my daily stroll
Observe the reckless chauffeur crowd her,
Laudator temporis, extol
The times before the Act allowed her.

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