My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling

This poem was written by writer Rudyard Kipling after his son was killed in 1915 in the First World War. Kipling is played by David Haig, his son Jack by Daniel Radcliffe.

MY BOY JACK

"Have you news of my boy Jack?
Not this tide.
When dyou think that hell come back?
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

Has any one else had word of him?
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.

Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind —
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.

Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!"

-My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling

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