Grex Poetry3 Conference

Item 357: "Epitaphs of War" by Kipling

Entered by papa on Thu Jul 4 03:00:13 2019:

One of the shortest poems in R. Kipling's collection "Epitaphs of War"
published after WWI is just two lines long.

"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."

Kipling's son John had been killed in the war.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/07/03/triumph-and-disaster-the-tragic-h
ubris-of-rudyard-kiplings-if/
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