https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:54:25 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/kipling-rudyard/53280/ https://wist.info/kipling-rudyard/53280/#respond Mon, 30 May 2022 21:56:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=53280 There are things in the breast of mankind which are best
In darkness and secrecy hid;
For you never can tell, when you’ve opened a hell,
How soon you can put back the lid.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English writer
“The Sons of the Suburbs” (1916)
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On bloodthirstiness in war by previously peaceful people.

Originally written for the Christmas 1916 issue of Blighty, a magazine for servicemen. It was rejected, eventually to be published in the Sunday Pictorial (19 Jan 1936). It was never included by Kipling in any of his collections. ]]> https://wist.info/kipling-rudyard/53280/feed/ 0 53280