Rudyard Kipling


«Epitaphs of the War». 1914-1918. 15. R.A.F. (Aged Eighteen)


Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed, 
Cities and men he smote from overhead. 
His deaths delivered, he returned to play 
Childlike, with childish things now put away.






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