< Page:The Seven Seas (Kipling, 1896).djvu
This page has been validated.
125
IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE
But a rival, of Solutré, told the tribe my style was outré—
'Neath a hammer, grooved of dolomite, he fell.
And I left my views on Art, barbed and tanged, below the heart
Of a mammothistic etcher at Grenelle.
Then I stripped them, scalp from skull, and my hunting dogs fed full,
And their teeth I threaded neatly on a thong;
And I wiped my mouth and said, 'It 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 ridgepole shrine he came,
And he told me in a vision of the night:—
'There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
And every single one of them is right!'
······
This article is issued from
Wikisource.
The text is licensed under Creative
Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.