Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

26 April 2022 at 15:00Repost

RT @nick_routledge: @kebayf Kipling, one of the First World War's earliest and most prominent public supporters, wrote 'The Gardener' while searching war cemeteries for the grave of his son, last seen on the battlefield at Loos, blinded by an injury, staggering, alone.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 Dec 2021

@theabhayk @DalrympleWill @jorgeheinel @PritishNandy @mkoirala @holdengraber After his son's death, in a poem titled "Epitaphs of the War", Kipling wrote "If any question why we died / Tell them, because our fathers lied."

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Quoted by21 Jun 2026@drglennsullivan Walking war cemeteries in Continental Europe powerfully affected me as a teen. Most of the dead barely a year or two older than me it seemed and the gravestones went on forever. 'This Dead Sea of arrested lives,' Kipling called them. Have you read his short-story, 'The Gardener'?Quoted by5 Sept 2023RT @nick_routledge: @culturaltutor Powerfully affected me as a teen, visiting those cemeteries. Most of the dead barely a year or two older than me it seemed and the gravestones went on forever. 'This Dead Sea of arrested lives,' Kipling called them. Have you read his short-story, 'The Gardener'?Quoted by5 Sept 2023@culturaltutor Powerfully affected me as a teen, visiting those cemeteries. Most of the dead barely a year or two older than me it seemed and the gravestones went on forever. 'This Dead Sea of arrested lives,' Kipling called them. Have you read his short-story, 'The Gardener'?