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Rudyard Kipling's Verse
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
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Rudyard Kipling's Verse
“TIN FISH”
1914–18
[_]
(Sea Warfare)
The
ships destroy us above
And ensnare us beneath.
We arise, we lie down, and we move
In the belly of Death.
The ships have a thousand eyes
To mark where we come . . .
But the mirth of a seaport dies
When our blow gets home.
Rudyard Kipling's Verse