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Submarines (poem)

"Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet".

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The musical setting repeats the first stanza. ==The Fringes of the Fleet==
The Fringes of the Fleet
• Kipling's book Sea Warfare (1916) republished The Fringes of the Fleet (1915) and included a section Tales of "The Trade" about the Submarine Service. It included a poem titled "The Trade" which begins: {{poemquote| They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In little boxes made of tin. ==References==
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