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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.

Rudyard Kipling
Wine, Drunk, Water
Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Rudyard Kipling
Fire, Water, Return
Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.817, Wordsworth Editions

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

Rudyard Kipling
Fighting, Beer, Water
Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.418, Wordsworth Editions

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