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    "title": "The Gods of the Copybook Headings",
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    "created": "2012-07-30 22:50:48 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, </p>\n<p>By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; </p>\n<p>But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, </p>\n<p>And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: \"If you don't work you die.\" </p>\n<p>Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew</p>\n<p>And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true</p>\n<p>That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four</p>\n<p>And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.</p>\n<p>As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man</p>\n<p>There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. </p>\n<p>That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, </p>\n<p>And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;</p>\n<p>And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins</p>\n<p>When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, </p>\n<p>As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, </p>\n<p>The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm\">Poems - 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'</a></em>.</p>\n"
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