This new collection includes such impressive classics as "The Gods of the Copybook Headings, " "The City of Brass, " "Recessional, " "Jubal and Tubal Cain, " "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted, " "If, " and many, many more.With prophetic vision, Rudyard Kipling's timeless verse speaks clearly to our own times. He was a keen observer of human nature--and of his times--which were much like our times: government leaders who were inept or corrupt or both, foreign conflicts that never seemed to end (or simply cropped up in other places), a populace who had largely forgotten God, and a general confusion about what was right and what was wrong."Kipling was something rarer than a philosopher, he was a prophet, " wrote T. S. Eliot. "He had a gift for prophecy."Kipling's warning voice sounds a clarion call to the troubled and stumbling world of the 21st century.