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'Oh, East is East, and West is West
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, and never the twain shall meet' The opening of The Ballad of East and West (1889) by Rudyard *Kipling. The poem is an action-packed tale, with a galloping rhythm, about the Colonel's son riding out after the bandit Kamal, who has stolen the Colonel's favourite mare in the northwest territory of India, near the Khyber Pass. Each man learns to respect the other, allowing the conclusion that there is neither East nor West 'when two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth'.
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