... over powering. When you imagine yourself there, with the sights and smells, you build up an affinity with those who actually lived the horror every day. Truthfully if we put ourselves in those conditions, we would choose to leave straight away, and if we couldn't our minds would deteriorate rather than face up to those conditions, so imagine a group of people, yet alone females, choosing to stay in that area of hell, and still keep a "glory in their eyes". No wonder Kipling deeply respected the valour shown by those mortal angels. In the last stanza, Kipling yet again describes the conditions and what the Nurses "endured unresting till they rested from their labours". To end the poem Kipling writes "Little wasted bodies, so light to lower down!" This tells us of the main killer of the nurses was not the implements of war directly, but the infestation of ...

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