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Poem by Rudyard Kipling


Chapter Headings. «If I Have Taken the Common Clay...»


“If I have taken the common clay
  	And wrought it cunningly
In the shape of a God that was digged a clod,
  	The greater honour to me.”

“If thou hast taken the common clay,
  	And thy hands be not free
From the taint of the soil, thou hast made thy spoil
  	The greater shame to thee.”



Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling's other poems:
  1. The First Chantey
  2. London Stone
  3. «Limits and Renewals». 1932. 16. Song of Seventy Horses
  4. «Limits and Renewals». 1932. 9. The Coiner
  5. An Old Song


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