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Rudyard Kipling 1917

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From: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations
Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo

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Rudyard Kipling 1917

"They are too near To be great But our children Shall understand When and how our Fate was changed And by whose hand."

These solemn words were composed by the British author Rudyard Kipling for the stately inscription that appears on one wall of the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower of the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. It is a reference to the men and women who fought and died in the Great War and by extension all earlier and later wars. As a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, which came ...

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