Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads

"Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads" by Rudyard Kipling are a series of songs and poems dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet. In this volume, he collects poems from his published Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses" and "The Seven Seas," as well as brand new works.