Text Tuesdays – Rudyard Kipling – “Macdonough’s Song” *Coachella Week

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1917, 2015, A Diversity of Creatures, Bombay, Coachella, England, India, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Macdonough's Song, Poem, Poet, poetry, Prose, Religion, Short Story, Text Tuesdays, United Kingdom, Westminster Abbey

Whether the State can loose and bind
In Heaven as well as on Earth:
If it be wiser to kill mankind
Before or after the birth–
These are matters of high concern
Where State-kept schoolmen are;
But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
Endeth in Holy War.