“From the garden of my heart to the garden of your heart.”
The following text appears on the reverse of the
card:
L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling
When earth's last picture is painted, and the
tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic
has died,
We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it — lie down
for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew!
And those who love God will be happy: they shall
sit in a golden chair;
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comets'
hair;
They shall find real saints to draw from — Magdalene,
Peter and Paul;
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired
at all!
And only the Master shall praise us, and only
the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money; and no one shall work for
fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate
star,
Shall draw the thing as he sees it for the God of things as
they are!
