Archive for Rudyard Kipling
An Imperial Rescript
Editor’s Note: This verse, written in 1890, apparently was inspired by an International Labor Conference called by Germany. There had been complaints that foreign labor was undercutting the level of wage rates in Germany; and the purpose of the Conference was to set a floor under wages — a world minimum wage. Now this is [...]
1Feb1958 | Rudyard Kipling | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Gods of the Copybook Headings
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. [...]
1Jan1958 | Rudyard Kipling | 0 comments | Continued-
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