MORS OMNIUM VICTOR
Gunga Din in Hell.
“An’ I’ll get a swig in Hell from Gunga Din!”
Kipling.
GREEN crawling slime, that bubbles clotted blood;
White wraiths of fetid steam that rise and curl,
And blood-red mist, convolving in a swirl
Of lurid heat, o’er that putrescent flood;
And under all, a seething, rotting mud—