Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads
Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 4.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
“God help us for we knew the worst too young.”
— Rudyard Kipling, book The Light That Failed
Source: The Light That Failed
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