History & Politics
Salonikan Grave
From The Years Between
History & Politics
I have watched a thousand days
Push out and crawl into night
Slowly as tortoises
Now I, too, follow these.
It is fever, and not fight--
Time, not battle--that slays.
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MLA
Kipling, Rudyard. “Salonikan Grave.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/156/.
Chicago
Kipling, Rudyard. “Salonikan Grave.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/156/.
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