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Rudyard Kipling - A General Summary
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We are very slightly changed
From the semi-apes who ranged
  India`s Prehistoric clay;
He that drew the longest bow
Ran his brother down, you know,
  As we run men down to-day.

"Dowb," the first of all his race,
Met the Mammoth face to face
  On the lake or in the cave:
Stole the steadiest canoe,
Ate the quarry others slew,
  Died — and took the finest grave.

When they scratched the reindeer-bone,
Some one made the sketch his own,
  Filched it from the artist — then,
Even in those early days,
Won a simple Viceroy`s praise
  Through the toil of other men.
Ere they hewed the Sphinx`s visage
Favouritism governed kissage,
  Even as it does in this age.

Who shall doubt "the secret hid
Under Cheops` pyramid"
Was that the contractor did
  Cheops out of several millions?
Or that Joseph`s sudden rise
To comptroller of Supplies
Was a fraud of monstrous size
  On King Pharaoh`s swart Civilians?

Thus, the artless songs I sing
Do not deal with anything
  New or never said before.
As it was in the beginning
Is to-day official sinning,
  And shall be for evermore!
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