The Mind
Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone
From Chapter Headings (Many Inventions)
The Mind
Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone,
'Twixt hostile earth and sky;
The mottled lizard 'neath the stone
Is wiser here than I.
What stir across the haze of heat?
What omen down the wind?
The buck that break before my feet—
They know, but I am blind!
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Kipling, Rudyard. “Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/429/.
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Kipling, Rudyard. “Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kipling/429/.
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