| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32823 |
| QUOTATION: | As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), British poet. The Gods of the Copybook Headings (l. 1–4). . .
Rudyard Kipling; Complete Verse; Definitive Edition. (1989) Doubleday. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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