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. A Nativity
2. The First Chantey
3. «Debits and Credits». (1919-1926). 1. The Changelings
4. The Wishing Caps
5. «Debits and Credits». (1919-1926). 11. Alnaschar and the Oxen

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