The Legend of Evil (part1) by Rudyard Kipling

The Legend of Evil I
This is the sorrowful story
Told when the twilight fails
And the monkeys walk together
Holding their neighbours' tails: --

"Our fathers lived in the forest,
Foolish people were they,
They went down to the cornland
To teach the farmers to play.

"Our fathers frisked in the millet,
Our fathers skipped in the wheat,
Our fathers hung from the branches,
Our fathers danced in the street.

"Then came the terrible farmers,
Nothing of play they knew,
Only. . .they caught our fathers
And set them to labour too!

"Set them to work in the cornland
With ploughs and sickles and flails,
Put them in mud-walled prisons
And -- cut off their beautiful tails!

"Now, we can watch our fathers,
Sullen and bowed and old,
Stooping over the millet,
Sharing the silly mould,

"Driving a foolish furrow,
Mending a muddy yoke,
Sleeping in mud-walled prisons,
Steeping their food in smoke.

"We may not speak to our fathers,
For if the farmers knew
They would come up to the forest
And set us to labour too."

This is the horrible story
Told as the twilight fails
And the monkeys walk together
Holding their kinsmen's tails.

Category:

Education

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• RUDYARD
• KIPLING
• THE
• LEGEND
• OF
• EVIL
• MONKEY
• FARMER
• FATHER

[ducttape411]

Hmmm, ever think of taking a half cred poetry class? You have great potential, and a lot of talent, but.. there's always room for improvment. I used to hate it when people told me that, but after I actually took the class, I saw a huge improvment. You should think about it.

[bafr1]

of course there is room for improvement, effort has never been my greatest skill, the poems i have done are only the ones i have learnt in primary school ,

as for creative writing , english litreture , i have been given the best education , britain and ireland can offer

your right though i should make an effort,

what does the word talent actually mean?

[budhasac]

Bravo

[Gordieiati]

Great poem!!

[hoffmann9471]

Wunderbare Lyrik ! Danke schoen.

[sanchezdot]

100/100 :)

[Audrafay]

how funny.....nice job

[nitehawk57]

cool poem and good reading!

[kimberlysim94]

that was niCe..

thanks for Sharing:D

kimberly

[realnutty01]

Slavery! A fight man has had and will continue to have for all eternity. perhaps!

[smirenger]

5*5*5*5*5*tars from: smi-ren-ger

[yawehking]

I want my tail back! oh wait, I mean, good poem... Awesome story, thanks for choosing that one, you have a good ear.