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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), British poet. The Gods of the Copybook Headings (l. 1–4). . .
