Sunday Kipling

Dedicated this 19 September, 2010 to the memory of our beloved Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Uncle and Friend Major Kenneth Webb. Killed near Mosul Iraq on 19 September, 2005.

Rest in peace Ken. You are with us forever.

Six

"Cities and Thrones and Powers"

Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth
The Cities rise again.

This season's Daffodil,
She never hears
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last year's;
But with bold countenance,
And knowledge small,
Esteems her seven days' continuance,
To be perpetual.

So Time that is o'er-kind
To all that be,
Ordains us e'en as blind,
As bold as she:
That in our very death,
And burial sure,
Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith,
"See how our works endure!"