The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-20
MY FIRST BOOK.
Nv RUDYARD 1gIPLING

copyright, 1892, by Ru,lyard Kipling.)
IN the Neolithic age savage warfare did
wage
For fame and food and two-toed horses
pelt;
J. was poet to my clan In that dim first dawn
of man,
And I sang of all we feared, and fought
and felt.
Yea, sang as now sing, when the prehis-
toric spring
Made the piled Bicayan ice pack split and
shove;
And the troll, and gnome ard dwerg, and
the gods of cliff and berg,
Were about me and beneath Inc and above.
Then rival (of Solutre, told the tribe my
style was Outre:
CNeath hammer, grooyed, Of dolomite, he
field
And 7 left my views of art barbed anu
Hanged beneath the heart
OF mammothstic poet at Grenelle.
So 1 stripped them scalp from skull, and my
hunting dogs fed full,
And their teeth / threaded neatly on thong,
And wiped my mouth and said 1T is well
that they are dead,
For I know my work is right, and theirs
was wrong!'
But my Totem saw the shame. from his ridge
mole shrine he came
And he told me in a vision Of the night;
"rhere are nlne-and-sixty ways OF construct
ing tribal lays.
And every single one Of them is right"
Still they skirmlsh TO ana no. lleh ""'i0N
with long ago,
when we headed off the Aurocks turn for
When the rich Alobregenses never kepe atnah-
uenses. , ,,~os +
And our only plots were piled ID lakes st
Bernc.
Still a cultured Christian age sees us scufiie'
sQueal and rage, ,
sam we nipch ana slap and 1abber, scratch
and dirk; ,,oa
the half-dressed hideo
TO snow II fellow savage how TO WorA-
Still the world is wondrous large-se'eh seas
from margc to marge--
And A. holds n vast OF various kinds or man
And the widest dreams of Kew are ule A'''S
Of khatmandoo, :, No.
And the crimes Of Clapham chaS'e ~ MAJ
taban.
Here's my wisdom for your use as ie"Fne0
It when the moose
And the reindeer roared Whefe faii' i"'i"
tonight: - construct.
There are ntne-anu-SAlS ""''
Ing tribal lays. IT,,
And eyery single enc of them is right
y
Al 4boro is only one man in charge, OF a
ston1npr. so there is but one man III ch"i ~ r.
If a newspaper, and he is the edltor. wy
chief taught me thus on an lh'lan ~ 10 10,
and he further explained that an 0rdeI W"a
IA no ohpyed at a run, not walk, anu VIA I
any notions or notions as TO tle n'n-1 10
or ,lnftness of any particular kliIi Oh W. IN n
| for the youug had better be held over ~, IN
| the last page was locked up 10 press; 10y
fp+n han L
him q deep debt of gratitude, when Qio
| not fIischarge at the time. Inc pain OF wa :
ne was very steep, whereas inc Wrio4ls VI
| verses allowed u certain play 10 me lhlili'
| and unlike the filing IN OF rcauins nHAi
| fer. co:lld be done as the spirit SefVeu-
| Nov = .;al,-editor is not hired to write verses
! EIe is paid to sub-cdit AT the time inns
| discovery shocked ne greatly; put, Soblt
| wears later. when | came to be All euitoi III
| charge, Providence dealt me Tor my supor-
| dinate one saturated with ella. lie wrote
| very pretty, Lamblike essays but lie wrote
| them when he should have been subeuilllls,
! Then | saw a little what my chleE must
| have suffered Oh my account. Ihefe Is Il
| moral here for the ambitious and aspiring
| who are. oppressed by their SupeTIorS.
This is DEPRESSION, but all my verses
were dgressions from Office work They
| came without invitation unmanucrcdlT, IL
the nature of things; but they had to come
! and the writing out Of them Kept me healthy
| ana Il -uUSGu. l AtG l'S0I W ny i''~''
brance, no one had discovered their grievouS
| cynicism or their pcssimistic tendency, and
| | was far too busy and to happy &c
| take thought about these things
| 50 they arrived merrily, being born out
! Of the life about ne, and they were very
! bad indeed and the jos of doing them was
! payment thousand times their worth
! Some, Of course came and ran away again
| and the dear sorrow of going in search OF
| these out of ofnce hours, and catching them
! was almost better than writing them clear
! Bad az they were, l burned twice as many
rs were published, and Of the SURVIVORS al
! least tWo~thirdS We're cut down at the last
! moment Nothing can be wholly beautiful
| that is not useful, and therefore my verse:
| wer,, USED to ease off the perpetual strife
! between the manager extending his adver
| tisemenfs and the chief lighting Tor his
! reading matter. They were made to be
! sacrificed Rukn-Din. the foreman of 0ul
| side, approved Of them Immensely, and he
| was n muslin OF culture. He would say
! 'Y0ur poetry very good, sir; just coming
! nroper length today. You giving more soon
| One-third column just proper. Always cal
| take on third page.
| Mahmad. who set them up, had an un
| pleasant way of reference 10 new lyric a;
| tsFk AIR chiz'--oue more thing which
never like Tue jcb side, too, Were unsy1npa
! thetic, because ] used to rand into Their type
| for private proofs. with Oh Ingilsh aht
| Gothic headlines. Even a Hindoo does not
| like 10 find the serifs of his is GU away to
| make long SIS.
| And in this matter, week by week, NY
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