Death & Dying
V. A. D. (Mediterranean)
From The Years Between
Death & Dying
Ah, would swift ships had never been, for then we ne'er had found,
These harsh AEgean rocks between, this little virgin drowned,
Whom neither spouse nor child shall mourn, but men she nursed
through pain
And--certain keels for whose return the heathen look in vain.
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MLA
Kipling, Rudyard. “V. A. D. (Mediterranean).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/332/.
Chicago
Kipling, Rudyard. “V. A. D. (Mediterranean).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/332/.
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