Mr Kipling writes exceedingly good poems!
May 11th 2014 Rudyard Kipling
A Song of French Roads -1923
Now praise the Gods of Time and Chance
That bring a heart's desire,
And lay the joyous roads of France
Once more beneath the tyre-
So numbered by Napoleon,
The veriest ass can spy
How Twenty takes to Bourg-Madame
And Ten is for Hendaye.
Sixteen hath fed our fighting-line
From Dunk
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