“God help us for we knew the worst too young.”
Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed
Source: The Light That Failed
“We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!”
— Rudyard Kipling, book Barrack-Room Ballads
Gentlemen-Rankers, Stanza 4.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
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