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9/11Boots by Rudyard Kipling read by Taylor Holmes
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- Publication date
- 1915-07-08
- Usage
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Topics
- Rudyard Kipling, Taylor Holmes, Monologue, Monologues, War, Anti-War, Boer War, Poem, Spoken Word, Dramatic, Recitation
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 6.8M
"Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. In 1915 the American actor Taylor Holmes recited the poem on a record that has been used through out pop culture to showcase the horrors of war.
