Poe is great ... Kipling is the best.
Agreed.
Agreed.
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
Poe is great ... Kipling is the best.
T. S. Eliot has them both beat in spades ... so there!