Quote#Wisdom
But my Totem saw the shame; from his ridgepole shrine he came
Quote byRudyard Kipling · 1865–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Seven Seas (1896), In the Neolithic Age, Stanza 5 (1895)..
English (original)
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!
— Rudyard Kipling
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