Rudyard Kipling

THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK
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THE OUTSONG

[This is the song that Mowgli heard behind him in the Jungle till he came to Messua's door again.]

Baloo

 For the sake of him who showed
 One wise Frog the Jungle-Road,
 Keep the Law the Man-Pack make—
 For thy blind old Baloo's sake!
 Clean or tainted, hot or stale,
 Hold it as it were the Trail,
 Through the day and through the night,
 Questing neither left nor right.
 For the sake of him who loves
 Thee beyond all else that moves,
 When thy Pack would make thee pain,
 Say: "Tabaqui sings again."
 When thy Pack would work thee ill,
 Say: "Shere Khan is yet to kill."
 When the knife is drawn to slay,
 Keep the Law and go thy way.
 (Root and honey, palm and spathe,
 Guard a cub from harm and scathe!)
 Wood and Water, Wind and Tree,
 Jungle-Favour go with thee!
 

Kaa

 Anger is the egg of Fear—
 Only lidless eyes are clear.
 Cobra-poison none may leech.
 Even so with Cobra-speech.
 Open talk shall call to thee
 Strength, whose mate is Courtesy.
 Send no lunge beyond thy length;
 Lend no rotten bough thy strength.
 Gauge thy gape with buck or goat,
 Lest thine eye should choke thy throat,
 After gorging, wouldst thou sleep?
 Look thy den is hid and deep,
 Lest a wrong, by thee forgot,
 Draw thy killer to the spot.
 East and West and North and South,
 Wash thy hide and (...)
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