“God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

— Rudyard Kipling , Recessional

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Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

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

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