Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-11
MY FIRST BOOK.

~ ANN'9 49, AAflhf'EF
Copyright \lso2, by I.udyard Klplhg)
In the Ncolitihc Age savage warfare did
] wage
For fame and food and two.toed horses
1 was poet To ny clan in that din Hrst
And SANG OF all we feared and fought,
ma felt
Yea, ! sang az now | sing, when the pre-
Made The piled Blcayan lee pack split and
Fhuvr;
And the troll, aud gnomc and dwerg. aud
the goes Of ella and berg
Were about me aud beneath me and above.
Then rival tor solutrcD told the tribe my
cNcalh a hammer, grooved, of doiomitc,
he fcD
And lett my views of art barbed and
tangled beneath the heart
OF mnmmothlstic az Hrenelle.
SO stripped them scalp from skull, and my
hunting dogs fed full,
And their teeth 1 threaded neatly ON
tlrong,
Aud wiped my mouth aud said, "It Is well
that they nro dcnd
wns wrongl
But my Totem saw the shame, from bis
ridge pole shrine he came,
And he told me Ia II vision VI the night;
There are pipc.and,slxty ways Of construct
ing tribal lays,
And every Single one Of them is right"
sim they skirmlsh to ANA fro men warred
When we headed on tho Auroces turn for
When thc rich Allobrogcnses never kept
And our only plots were piled In lakes at
Bernc.
sun, cultured Christian age secs us scuf.
iig, sQueul ana rage,
SIN we pinch nnd slap and iabber,
sul w lei our business slide u,s We dropped
The hNlfrlrcsscd hllcl,
To show a fellow savage how TO work.
sul. tho world is wondrous large-sevcu
seas FROM mnruc TO marEC-
And Il holds vast Of various kinds OF
And Tie widest dreams OF Kew are the
fuctH VI llratmandoU,
And thc crimes of Chaplain chaste In Mar
tubun.
Here's my Wisdom for your use, IA | learned
And tho reindeer roared where Paris roats
to-night:
There NJ nlge-ena.slrty ways OF con
strncung tribal lays,
And every single one OF them Is right.
As thcre Is only one man in charge OF
q steamer, so ther1 Is but me man ip
charge Of u newspaper and he is the
editor My chief taught me this on m
lndlm journal, and he further explained
that an order was an order. TO be
ohoyed ut q run, not u walk, Und that
amy notion ar notions as To the fitness
or Wuiimcss of any particular kind OF
work for the young had better he held
oyer till the last page wag locked up
20 press ic was breaking me into
harness, aud | owe Him deep debt
of gratitude which l did not discharge
at the time. The path OF virtue was
very steep, whereas the writing of verses
allowed certain play TO the mind. and,
unlike the filling In OF reading matter,
could be- ,lonc as the spirit served. Now,
u sClreditor Is not hired 20 write verses.
IL is paid to suh-ctlit At tho time
thls dis 'overy shocked me greatly; but
some years later, when | came to be
AN editor In charge, Providence dealt
me- for my subordinate one saturated
with ELLA, lie wrote very pretty,
Iambuhe essays, hut he wrote them
Wien he should have bcrh sul~cditmg,
Then ] saw little Of what my CHIEF
must hnyo suffered on my account.
Thtrc Is ~ moIIl here Cor the ambitious
aha aspiring who are oppressed by their
superiors.
fhis is a DEPRESSION. but all my verses
were digr esious from office work. They
cginc without invitation fundamentally,
In the nature of things; hut they had 70
rpwe. and the writing out OF them keNt
me healthy and amused To the best Of
my MN smhrance no one had discovered
their grevious cynicism or their pcSsi-
misNc tendency, and ! was far too busy
aud 100 hnppy TO take thought about
those things.
SO they arrived merrily. being horn
ont Of the life about me, aud they were
very bad, indeed, aud the Joy Of doiag
them WAS pleasant thonsnnd tinics
their worth. some OF course. cams
ai,d ran away again, and the dear sor.
rev OF going IN search OF those out Of
ollioe hours and catching thcm, was nj
most better than whiting them clear.
lad AZ they were. I hnrned twice as
MANY rs werc published, and Of she SUR
yiyors at least two-thirds were cut down
At ihe last momeat, Nothing can be
WHOLLY beautiful thar - net USEFUL, and
llsfctpic my Neysos were used 10 case
on The perpetual slrifc hctNveen the
Mahnker extcndinr his advertisements
ana the chlet hIs, lor his reading