When Earth’s Last Picture is Painted
Rudyard Kipling
1865 to 1936
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew!
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it—lie down for an aeon or two,
And those who were good shall be happy: they shall sit in a golden chair;
They shall find real saints to draw from—Magdalene, Peter and Paul;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comet's hair;
And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all.
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,