Explore "The Dead King" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
1910. (EDWARD VII.)
_Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? / And, unconcerned for his own estate, toils till the last grudged sands have run? / Let him approach. It is proven here / Our King asks nothing of any man more than Our King himself has done._