Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
‘Them that ask no questions, isn’t told a lie’.
I associate this poem with the run up to Christmas, because that line was often quoted, or more often misquoted, at me round about this time of year.
Like so much of Kipling’s poetry, it’s a pleasure to read aloud, although it does strange things to my accent.
It originally appeared in ‘Puck of Pook’s Hill’, but this is taken from Rudyard Kipling ‘Complete verse’ Anchor books 1940.