Rudyard Kipling

Chapter Headings. «If I Have Taken the Common Clay...»

“If I have taken the common clay
  	And wrought it cunningly
In the shape of a God that was digged a clod,
  	The greater honour to me.”

“If thou hast taken the common clay,
  	And thy hands be not free
From the taint of the soil, thou hast made thy spoil
  	The greater shame to thee.”