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QUOTATION:The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
ATTRIBUTION:Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), British writer, poet. repr. In The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse (1940). “Recessional,” st. 2 (1897).

“Lest we forget” was adopted as an epitaph by the War Graves Commission—for which Kipling worked—after World War I....
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