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kipling

9/8/2021

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​Jeff Minick, writing for The Epoch Times, Sept 8, 2021: “Kipling issues several warnings about the troubles plaguing our nation right now. The Gods of the Copybook Headings, with its admonitions against breaking or abandoning a moral code, is more applicable today than when Kipling wrote it. These headings were the maxims or proverbs at the top of a page in a copybook, which students then wrote over and over again to develop their penmanship … the poem ends with this verse:

​​           And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
            When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
             As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
              The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
”

​Minick taught Latin, history, and literature to homeschooling students and is the author of two novels. Two of my students eyed Kipling's poem.



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Josef Ketzer
9/11/2021 02:09:06 pm

"The gods of the copybook headings"... I found this quotation once in an essay of George Orwell translated into German ("Die Götter der Schönschreibsentenzen"), it fascinated me, so I was searching in the internet for this very rare and unknown poem by Rudyard Kipling... and found it! (Heureka, the www!)

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Robert Dunn link
9/11/2021 02:20:28 pm

Eureka! Don't you love the internet? [Josef is a dear friend and tutor who lives in Austria.]

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