StoryTitle("caps", "L'envoi") ?>
by Rudyard Kipling, is a favourite on account of its
sweeping assertion of the individual's right to self-development.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an æon or two,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew!", "") ?>
PagePoem(285, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And those who were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comet's hair;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They shall find real saints to draw from—Magdalene, Peter, and Paul;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Rudyard Kipling")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>