Will you never let us go?
Very close to “The Lost Legion” are another kind of misfits – the oppressed: people who are misfits not as individuals, but because of belonging to a whole class which is trampled down by society. Such are the slaves whipped by their masters, or the “primitive” tribes pushed out of their ancestral homelands by better-armed, “civilized” people. Kipling, with his sympathies for the oppressed and his ability to get under other people’s skin, gives vent in “A Pict Song” and “Song of the Galley-Slaves” to the impotent rage of people who are too weak to resist.