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And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know." On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is ...
"The Gods of the Copybook Headings" "The Grave of the Hundred Head" "Great-Heart" "The Greek National Anthem" "Gunga Din" "Half-Ballad of Waterval" "Harp Song of the Dane Women" "Helen All Alone" "Heriot's Ford" "The Heritage" "The Holy War" "The Hour of the Angel" "The Houses" "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack" "Hyaenas" "Hymn Before Action"
Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling put it, always return.
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Believe whatever you want, but neither an intellectually honest reading of the poem nor Mr. Kipling's own words elsewhere support you. It is simplistic to paint Kipling as a "conservative" or a "liberal" by today's understanding of the terms, but don't "cultured" people tell us to find our own meanings in artists' works, anyway?
Rudyard Kipling. Joseph Rudyard Kipling FRSL (/ ˈ r ʌ d j ər d / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
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