Rudyard Kipling | Tall Tales of Felony and Failure

Rudyard Kipling – Ulster 1912

The stoic lad who brought us “Tin Fish” also delivered this rousing call:

Oh…. wait a minute, there… this poem’s about what?

Orange fucker. You blinded me with your sissy little submarine poem. I’m like a mongoose, though, and I shan’t be [...]

THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET

By Rudyard Kipling

FOURTH ARTICLE

“Tin Fish”

1914-18

The ships destroy us above
And ensnare us beneath.
We arise, we lie down, and we move
In the belly of death.

The ships have a thousand eyes
To mark where we come . . .
And the mirth of [...]