“I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Prelude, Stanza 1.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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