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The Last of the Light Brigade (complete version) — by Rudyard Kipling

1 Comment Published by Captain Iso June 18th, 2009 in Other Topics, Poetry, Society

There were thirty million English who talked of England’s might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.
They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;
They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.
They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,
That though [...]