Religion

Pagan

by Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936

From The Years Between

Religion

How can the skin of rat or mouse hold
Anything more than a harmless flea?...
The burning plague has taken my household.
Why have my Gods afflicted me?

All my kith and kin are deceased,
Though they were as good as good could be.
I will out and batter the family priest,
Because my Gods have afflicted me.

MLA

Kipling, Rudyard. “Pagan.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/122/.

Chicago

Kipling, Rudyard. “Pagan.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/122/.

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