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Question: Looking for two poems!.!?
One is titled the "The Tall Ships" by Walter de la Mere
The other is by Samuel Coleridge (I think!. It may be someone else) and begins
"When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
We shall rest and Faith we shall need it, lie down for an eon or two!.!."
I loved both poems in my youth and have not been able to find them on the web!.
Could someone give me a source!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
When Earth's Last Picture is Painted
Rudyard Kipling


When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colours 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 put us to work anew!

And those that were good shall 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!

i can only find one for you!.!.!.!.hope its what you want!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

The other poem is John Masefield's "Sea Fever"!. I feel your pain in trying to put author and poem together!.!.!.I get them confused all the time!.!.!.and we are not alone, which is why many anthologies have two indexes: one of authors, and the other of first lines :)Www@QuestionHome@Com