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kipling

-Rudyard Kipling (from The Veterans)



One service more we dare to ask–
Pray for us, heroes, pray,
That when Fate lays on us our task
We do not shame the Day.

1 Comment

  1. crash course

    October 23, 2007 @ 1:33 pm

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    It’s such a beautiful poem; I can’t imagine the veterans were very beautiful and from an English perspective the war was not a noble one.

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