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TO R.K. by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN

First Line: WILL THERE NEVER COME A SEASON
Last Line: AND THE HAGGARDS RIDE NO MORE?
Subject(s): HAGGARD, RIDER (1856-1925); KIPLING, RUDYARD (1865-1936); MANKIND; MILLENIUM; HUMAN RACE;
WILL there never come a season
Which shall rid us from the curse
Of a prose which knows no reason
And an unmelodious verse:
When the world shall cease to wonder
At the genius of an ass,
And a boy's eccentric blunder
Shall not bring success to pass:

When mankind shall be delivered
From the clash of magazines,
And the inkstand shall be shivered
Into countless smithereens:
When there stands a muzzled stripling,
Mute, beside a muzzled bore:
When the Rudyards cease from Kipling
And the Haggards ride no more?


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