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Rudyard Kipling

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1865 to 1936

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Called for wine, and threw — alas! —
Old men love while young men die?
Loosing blindly as they fly,
At the Tavern long ago.
Ah, the fateful dawn deceived!
Thus it was they wrought our woe
Love and Death once ceased their strife
Venom-headed darts of Death.
Each his quiver on the grass.
Mingled arrows each one sheaved;
At the Tavern of Man's Life.
Mingled arrows strewed the ground.
Hastily they gathered then
With the shafts he most abhorred;
Love's light quiver groaned beneath
Death's dread armoury was stored
Each the loves and lives of men.
Tell me, do our masters know,
When the bout was o'er they found

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