{"id":87,"date":"2013-10-05T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-01-24T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:48:30","slug":"series-of-poems-you-ought-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/series-of-poems-you-ought-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Series of Poems You Ought to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Conundrum of the Workshops
\n<\/strong> By Rudyard Kipling<\/em><\/p>\n

WHEN the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold,
\nOur father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold;
\nAnd the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
\nTill the Devil whispered behind the leaves: “It’s pretty, but is it Art?”\t <\/p>\n

\"baphomet01\"Wherefore he called to his wife and fled to fashion his work anew\u2014\t 5
\nThe first of his race who cared a fig for the first, most dread review;
\nAnd he left his lore to the use of his sons\u2014and that was a glorious gain
\nWhen the Devil chuckled: “Is it Art?” in the ear of the branded Cain.\t <\/p>\n

They builded a tower to shiver the sky and wrench the stars apart,
\nTill the Devil grunted behind the bricks: “It’s striking, but is it Art?”\t 10
\nThe stone was dropped by the quarry-side, and the idle derrick swung,
\nWhile each man talked of the aims of art, and each in an alien tongue.\t <\/p>\n

They fought and they talked in the north and the south, they talked and they fought in the west,
\nTill the waters rose on the jabbering land, and the poor Red Clay had rest\u2014
\nHad rest till the dank blank-canvas dawn when the dove was preened to start,\t 15
\nAnd the Devil bubbled below the keel: “It’s human, but is it Art?”\t <\/p>\n

The tale is old as the Eden Tree\u2014as new as the new-cut tooth\u2014
\nFor each man knows ere his lip-thatch grows he is master of Art and Truth;
\nAnd each man hears as the twilight nears, to the beat of his dying heart,
\nThe Devil drum on the darkened pane: “You did it, but was it Art?”\t 20<\/p>\n

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice-peg,
\nWe have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yolk of an addled egg,
\nWe know that the tail must wag the dog, as the horse is drawn by the cart;
\nBut the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: “It’s clever, but is it Art?”\t <\/p>\n

When the flicker of London’s sun falls faint on the club-room’s green and gold,\t 25
\nThe sons of Adam sit them down and scratch with their pens in the mold\u2014
\nThey scratch with their pens in the mold of their graves, and the ink and the anguish start
\nWhen the Devil mutters behind the leaves: “It’s pretty, but is it art?”\t <\/p>\n

Now, if we could win to the Eden Tree where the four great rivers flow,
\nAnd the wreath of Eve is red on the turf as she left it long ago,\t 30
\nAnd if we could come when the sentry slept, and softly scurry through,
\nBy the favor of God we might know as much\u2014as our father Adam knew.\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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