MR. KIPLING AND THE NEUTRAL.
Brethren, how shall it- fare with me When the war is laid aside, if it be proven that 1 am lie For wfiom a world lias died ? If it he proven that all my good, And tiie greater good 1 will make Were purchased for me by a multitude Who suffered for my sake? That I was delivered by mere mankind Vowed to one-sacrifice, And not, as I hold them, battle-blind, But dying with open eyes ? That they did not ask me to draw the sword . When they stood to endure their lot, That they only look for me for a word, And I auswered I knew them not? If it he found when the battle clears Tiieir death hag set me free, Then how shall I live with myself thro’ the years , . Which they have brought for me ? Brethren, how must it fare with me, Or how am I justified, if it be proven that I am lie For whom mankind ha.s denied; if it be proven that I am he . Who being questioned denied ? From Rudvard Kipling’s “Sea Warfare.'” ‘
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4473, 14 February 1917, Page 3
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