Poem by 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.

1. The Night Before
2. The Irish Conspiracy
3. Index Malorum
4. Job’s Wife
5. The Reaping

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