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.

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2. The Cursing of Stephen
3. Anchor Song
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