by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
The ships destroy us above
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Language: English
The ships destroy us above
And ensnare us beneath.
We arise, we lie down, and we
In the belly of Death.
The ships have a thousand eyes
To mark where we come . . .
But the mirth of a seaport dies
When our blow gets home.
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View text with all available footnotesFirst published in Daily Telegraph, November 1915
Text Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), "Tin Fish", appears in Sea Warfare, in The Fringes of the Fleet, first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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