Living
Raped and Revenged
From The Years Between
Living
One used and butchered me: another spied
Me broken--for which thing a hundred died.
So it was learned among the heathen hosts
How much a freeborn woman's favour costs.
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MLA
Kipling, Rudyard. “Raped and Revenged.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/155/.
Chicago
Kipling, Rudyard. “Raped and Revenged.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/155/.
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