and Kipling's poem ends:
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“The Gods of the Copybook
Headings” ends:
As it
will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man —
There
are only four things certain since Social Progress began:
That the
Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the
burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
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!