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If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. — Rudyard Kipling

Poem

If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.

Rudyard Kipling
1919
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World War I
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Poem
Time
1919
Person
Rudyard Kipling
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Current citation
Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." Selected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 1.
Original citation
Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." The Years Between. Methuen and Co., 1919, I. 1.

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