Salt Lake Herald | 1900-03-04 | Page 14 | To Rudyard Kipling

To Rudyard Kipling W G L In the Bookman o m Prophet of ot brawn anti and an bravery Bard of the fighting man You have made us kneel to a God of at o f Steel And to fear tear His churchs ban lou ITou havo taught caught the song that the bullet bulie X sings The knell and the of ot kings The d appeal app l Prophet of at brain and handicraft Bard Barn of oC our grim STirn machines You have hae made us dream of a God of ot c Steam And have haye shown shawn what His worship p means In the clanking rod rad and the tho whirring g wheel wheelA A life and axed a n soul your songs reveal And power and m ht supreme Bard Barel of the East anti and mystery Singer of ot those who wha bow To the earthen erthen clods which they can call ca 11 their gods And with Godlike fees tees endow You have shown boWD that these heed h not nat the tt e suppliants plea Nor Nar the of the priest and devotee devote 5 Nor the vestals futile vow tess Singer we ask what we cannot learn From our wise men and our schools Will our offered slain from fram our gods ob ol obtain tain tam But the old reward of fools Will our manmade gods be like lIko their thel ir kind If It ye e bow to a clod of clay enshrined Will vm be pray our prayers prayer in vain