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the gods of the copybook headings by rudyard kipling read for librivox.org by andy minter the god of the copybook headings by rudyard kipling as i pass through my incarnations in every age and race i make my proper prostrations to the gods of the marketplace peering through reverent fingers i watch them flourish and fall and the gods of the copybook headings i notice outlast them all we were living in trees when they met us they showed us each in turn but water would certainly wet us as fire would certainly burn but we found them lacking in uplift vision and breadth of mind so we left them to teach the gorillas while we followed the march of mankind we moved as the spirit listed they never altered their pace being neither cloud nor wind born like the gods of the marketplace but they always caught up with our progress and presently word would come that a tribe had been wiped off its ice fields or the lights had gone out in rome with the hopes that our world is built on they were utterly