The phrase originates in a Victorian poem by writer Rudyard Kipling, who composed it before it was then used to commentate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, when it was published in ...

Maybe we should revisit “Recessional,” the 1897 poem by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Kipling has appeared in the Sun’s Poem of the Day feature several times over the past two years, with “ The Way ...