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To: A_perfect_lady

That’s only 30% of it.

The whole thing is here:

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm

Kipling foretold the next century from the vantage point of the year after the end of The Great War.


28 posted on 11/12/2012 5:04:51 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Oh, believe me, I went and googled it immediately. Now I’m trying to figure out exactly what he means by the phrase “Gods of the Copybook Headings.” Does he mean basic common sense we learned as children?


29 posted on 11/12/2012 5:15:39 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: DuncanWaring

Okay, yep, that’s what he meant. Well, he called it.


30 posted on 11/12/2012 5:19:06 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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