Rudyard Kipling War Poems

1917

For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, that the walls could never be broken down nor hurt by the most mighty adverse potentate unless the townsmen gave consent thereto. --Bunyan's Holy War.
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Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady!
Watch for a smooth! Give way!
If she feels the lop already
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1914-18
"equality of sacrifice"
A. "I was a Have." B. "I was a ‘have-not.'"
(Together). "What hast thou given which I gave not?"
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