, 1915 The 1915 spoken-word recording of the poem by American actor
Taylor Holmes has been used for its psychological effect in U.S. military
Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape schools. The poem was set to music for low male voice and orchestra by "P. J. McCall", and recorded in 1929 by Australian bass-baritone
Peter Dawson. McCall was Dawson, publishing under a pseudonym. That setting was soon recorded by other singers, but seems largely to have fallen out of fashion, possibly because of
World War II. American-born British poet
T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ''
A Choice of Kipling's Verse''. A
Russian version of the poem,
Pyl (,
Dust), was set to music by
Soviet bard
Evgeny Agranovich during World War II, and used as a
marching song in his unit. The unit's
commissar enjoyed the song, but disapproved of the foreign lyrics. Because of this, Agranovich later added several verses of his own invention to the march. ==In popular culture==