The Five Nations is a collection of poems by English writer and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in late 1903, both in UK & USA. Some of the poems were new; some had been published before (notably “Recessional”, of 1897), sometimes in different versions. (format identical to Macmillan Pocket Kipling). Includes The Burial, The Wage-Slaves, The White Man’s Burden, Recessional etc