McAndrew's Hymn

"McAndrew's Hymn" is a poem by English writer Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was begun in 1893, and first published in December 1894 in Scribner's Magazine.[1][2] It was collected in Kipling's The Seven Seas of 1896. Some editions title the poem "M'Andrew's Hymn".[Note 1]

It is an extended monologue by an elderly Scottish chief marine engineer serving in a passenger steamship, who is standing the nighttime middle watch. Except for two brief interjections to others, it is a musing on his life addressed to the Christian God from a Calvinist perspective.

  1. ^ Kipling, Rudyard (1894). "McAndrews' Hymn". Scribner's Magazine. 16 (6): 667–74.
  2. ^ a b Wilson, Alastair (13 January 2013). ""McAndrew's Hymn" (notes by Alastair Wilson)". Kipling Society. (Signed as A.J.W.W.). Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  3. ^ Kipling, Rudyard (29 June 2006). Keating, Peter (ed.). Selected Poems. Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780141922164.


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