Religion
The Sleepy Sentinel
From The Years Between
Religion
Faithless the watch that I kept: now I have none to keep.
I was slain because I slept: now I am slain I sleep.
Let no man reproach me again, whatever watch is unkept--
I sleep because I am slain. They slew me because I slept.
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MLA
Kipling, Rudyard. “The Sleepy Sentinel.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/145/.
Chicago
Kipling, Rudyard. “The Sleepy Sentinel.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/145/.
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