| Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Verse: 1885–1918. 1922. | | | | Seven Watchmen |
| | 1918
SEVEN Watchmen sitting in a tower, | |
| Watching what had come upon mankind, | |
| Showed the Man the Glory and the Power, | |
| And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind. | |
| “All things on Earth your will shall win you.” | 5 |
| (’Twas so their council ran) | |
| “But the Kingdom—the Kingdom is within you,” | |
| Said the Man’s own mind to the Man. | |
| For time—and some time— | |
| As it was in the bitter years before | 10 |
| So it shall be in the over-sweetened hour— | |
| That a man’s mind is wont to tell him more | |
| Than Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower. | | | | |
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