Death & Dying
R. A. F. (Aged Eighteen)
From The Years Between
Death & Dying
Laughing through clouds, his milk-teeth still unshed,
Cities and men he smote from overhead.
His deaths delivered, he returned to play
Childlike, with childish things now put away.
Cite this poem
MLA
Kipling, Rudyard. “R. A. F. (Aged Eighteen).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/330/.
Chicago
Kipling, Rudyard. “R. A. F. (Aged Eighteen).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/330/.
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