poetry interlude

[robert l. bentham]

this is a favorite from my childhood

Rudyard Kipling​

Et Dona Ferentes



So the hard, pent rage ate inward, till some idiot went too far...
"Let 'em have it!" and they had it, and the same was merry war -


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