"Dane-geld" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
The poem ends thus:
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:—
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"[1]
"Dane-geld" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936).
The poem ends thus:
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation, For fear they should succumb and go astray; So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, You will find it better policy to say:—
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!"[1]
— Stanzas 5-6