Me too. In some piece of material that starts with “B” I believe. It may have been the Babylonian Bee, or it may be some place else.
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin
Kipling was a prophet (full poem may be found on my homepage)
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
What rough beast,
its hour come at last,
slouches towards Jerusalem,
to be born?
(not an exact quote but kinda as found in “Back to School” - Wm. Butler Yeats?)
There is indeed nothing new under the sun, is there..