Rudyard Kipling's Verse :: :: University of Virginia Library

Rudyard Kipling's Verse

Definitive Edition

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

[section]

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

PELICANS IN THE WILDERNESS

A Grave near Halfa

The blown sand heaps on me, that none may learn
Where I am laid for whom my children grieve. . . .
O wings that beat at dawning, ye return
Out of the desert to your young at eve!