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p> EAST MEETS WEST br> Re: William Tucker's Call It a Democracy and the Hell With It and Richard Donley's letter (under "America's Burden") in Reader Mail's A Delicate Phase : /p>

When we quote Kipling on the complexities of the Near East, as Tucker and letter writer, Richard Donley, did, we have to remember his great poem, "The Gods of the Copybook Headings," which he wrote in 1919."

Here is the last verse:

p> em>As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of man -- br> There are only four things certain since social progress began -- br> That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, br> And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire,

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