Rudyard Kipling/Tear Jerker
- "The Roman Centurion's Song."
Legate, I come to you in tears -- My cohort ordered home! |
- "My Boy Jack," about all the red tape surrounding his trying to get word of how his son died.
- "The Power of the Dog" makes it clear that owning a dog will eventually break your heart:
When the body that lived at your single will, |
- So does "His Apologies":
Master, pity Thy Servant! He is deaf and three parts blind. |
- Hits especially hard because the previous stanzas were funny and/or heartwarming.
- "Marklake Witches," in-story as well as, once you realize, out. She doesn't know she's terminally ill... and she sings that so-appropriate song....