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Rudyard Kipling's Verse
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
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Rudyard Kipling's Verse
SALONIKAN GRAVE
I have watched a thousand days
Push out and crawl into night
Slowly as tortoises.
Now I, too, follow these.
It is fever, and not the fight—
Time, not battle,—that slays.
Rudyard Kipling's Verse