Songs from Books
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1914
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First Edition October 1913
Reprinted October (twice), November 1913, 1914
I have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books. In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used, I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken.
_Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die. But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth, The Cities rise again.
This season's Daffodil, She never hears, What change, what chance, what chill, Cut down last year's: But with bold countenance, And knowledge small, Esteems her seven days' continuance To be perpetual.
So Time that is o'er-kind, To all that be, Ordains us e'en as blind, As bold as she: That in our very death, And burial sure, Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith, 'See how our works endure!'_
SONG BOOK PAGE Angutivaun Taina Second Jungle Book 292 Astrologer's Song, An Rewards and Fairies 164 Ballad of Minepit Shaw, The Rewards and Fairies 266 Bee Boy's Song, The Puck of Pook's Hill 172 Bees and the Flies, The Actions and Reactions 89 Blue Roses Light that Failed 225 British-Roman Song, A Puck 96 Brookland Road Rewards and Fairies 10 Butterflies Traffics and Discoveries 228 'By the Hoof of the Wild Goat' Plain Tales 217 Captive, The Traffics and Discoveries 71 Carol, A Rewards and Fairies 41 Chapter Headings Beast and Man, etc. 132 Jungle Books 245 Just-So Stories 182 Naulahka, Light that Failed 78 Plain Tales 30 Charm, A Rewards and Fairies 26 Children's Song, The Puck 143 Chil's Song Second Jungle Book 69 'Cities and Thrones and Powers' Puck vii City of Sleep, The The Day's Work 198 Cold Iron Rewards and Fairies 36 Cuckoo Song Heathfield Parish Memoirs 24 Darzee's Chaunt Jungle Book 299 Dedication, A Soldiers Three 235 Eddi's Service Rewards and Fairies 45 Egg-shell, The Traffics and Discoveries 254 Fairies' Siege, The Kim 50 Four Angels, The Actions and Reactions 301 Frankie's Trade Rewards and Fairies 285 Gallio's Song Actions and Reactions 86 Gow's Watch Kim 206 Hadramauti Plain Tales 75 Harp Song of the Dane Women Puck 60 Heriot's Ford Light that Failed 283 Heritage, The The Empire and the Century 130 Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack Jungle Book 294 If— Rewards and Fairies 149 Jester, The Collected 156 Jubal and Tubal Cain Letters to the Family 112 Juggler's Song, The Naulahka 288 Kingdom, The Naulahka 15 King Henry VII. and the Shipwrights Rewards and Fairies 272 King's Task, The Traffics and Discoveries 256 Law of the Jungle, The Second Jungle Book 120 Looking-Glass, The Rewards and Fairies 193 Love Song of Har Dyal, The Plain Tales 234 'Lukannon' Jungle Book 161 Merrow Down Just-So Stories 176 Morning Song in the Jungle Second Jungle Book 223 Mother o' Mine Light that Failed 237 Mowgli's Song against People Second Jungle Book 241 My Lady's Law Naulahka 230 'My New-Cut Ashlar' Life's Handicap 43 Necessitarian, The Traffics and Discoveries 154 New Knighthood, The Actions and Reactions 54 Nursing Sister, The Naulahka 232 Old Mother Laidinwool Puck 179 Only Son, The Many Inventions 238 'Our Fathers also' Traffics and Discoveries 94 'Our Fathers of Old' Rewards and Fairies 127 Outsong in the Jungle Second Jungle Book 56 Parade Song of the Camp Animals Jungle Book 145 Pict Song, A Puck 98 'Poor Honest Men' Rewards and Fairies 105 Poseidon's Law Traffics and Discoveries 263 'Power of the Dog, The' Actions and Reactions 168 Prairie, The Letters to the Family 28 Prayer, The Kim 303 Prayer of Miriam Cohen, The Many Inventions 202 Prodigal Son, The Kim 151 Prophets at Home Puck 111 Pock's Song Puck 3 Puzzler, The Actions and Reactions 73 Queen's Men, The Rewards and Fairies 196 Rabbi's Song, The Actions and Reactions 170 Recall, The Actions and Reactions 1 Return of the Children, The Traffics and Discoveries 174 'Rimini' Puck 102 Ripple Song, A Second Jungle Book 226 Road Song of the Bandar - Log Jungle Book 92 Romulus and Remus Letters to the Family 243 Run of the Downs, The Rewards and Fairies 9 Sack of the Gods, The Naulahka 12 School Song, A Stalky & Co. 116 'Servant When He Reigneth, A' Letters to the Family 124 Shiv and the Grasshopper Jungle Book 48 Sir Richard's Song Puck 19 Smuggler's Song, A Puck 269 Song of Kabir, A Second Jungle Book 39 Song of the Fifth River Puck 140 Song of the Little Hunter Second Jungle Book 204 Song of the Men's Side Rewards and Fairies 296 Song of the Red War-Boat Rewards and Fairies 219 Song of Travel, A Letters to the Family 157 Song to Mithras, A Puck 52 St. Helena Lullaby, A Rewards and Fairies 66 Stranger, The Letters to the Family 100 Tarrant Moss Plain Tales 17 Thorkild's Song Puck 290 Thousandth Man, The Rewards and Fairies 62 Three-Part Song, A Puck 8 Tree Song, A Puck 21 Truthful Song, A Rewards and Fairies 266 Two-Sided Man, The Kim 159 Voortrekker, The Collected 114 Way through the Woods, The Rewards and Fairies 6 Wet Litany, The Traffics and Discoveries 277 'When the Great Ark' Letters to the Family 109 Widower, The Various 200 Winners, The Story of the Gadsbys 64 Wishing Caps, The Kim 215
Rudyard Kipling
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SONGS FROM BOOKS
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CONTENTS
INDEX TO FIRST LINES
THE RECALL
PUCK'S SONG
THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS
A THREE-PART SONG
THE RUN OF THE DOWNS
BROOKLAND ROAD
THE SACK OF THE GODS
THE KINGDOM
TARRANT MOSS
SIR RICHARD'S SONG
A TREE SONG
CUCKOO SONG
A CHARM
THE PRAIRIE
CHAPTER HEADINGS
PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS
COLD IRON
A SONG OF KABIR
A CAROL
'MY NEW-CUT ASHLAR'
EDDI'S SERVICE
SHIV AND THE GRASSHOPPER
THE FAIRIES' SIEGE
A SONG TO MITHRAS
THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD
OUTSONG IN THE JUNGLE
BALOO
KAA
BAGHEERA
THE THREE
HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN
THE THOUSANDTH MAN
THE WINNERS
A ST. HELENA LULLABY
CHIL'S SONG
THE CAPTIVE
THE PUZZLER
HADRAMAUTI
CHAPTER HEADINGS
THE NAULAHKA
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED
GALLIO'S SONG
THE BEES AND THE FLIES
'OUR FATHERS ALSO'
A BRITISH-ROMAN SONG
A PICT SONG
THE STRANGER
'RIMINI'
'POOR HONEST MEN'
'WHEN THE GREAT ARK'
PROPHETS AT HOME
JUBAL AND TUBAL CAIN
THE VOORTREKKER
A SCHOOL SONG
THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
'A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNETH'
'OUR FATHERS OF OLD'
THE HERITAGE
CHAPTER HEADINGS
'BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA'
LIFE'S HANDICAP
KIM
MANY INVENTIONS
SONG OF THE FIFTH RIVER
THE CHILDREN'S SONG
PARADE-SONG OF THE CAMP-ANIMALS
ELEPHANTS OF THE GUN-TEAMS
GUN-BULLOCKS
CAVALRY HORSES
SCREW-GUN MULES
COMMISSARIAT CAMELS
ALL THE BEASTS TOGETHER
IF—
THE PRODIGAL SON
THE NECESSITARIAN
THE JESTER
A SONG OF TRAVEL
THE TWO-SIDED MAN
'LUKANNON'
AN ASTROLOGER'S SONG
'THE POWER OF THE DOG'
THE RABBI'S SONG
THE BEE BOY'S SONG
THE RETURN OF THE CHILDREN
MERROW DOWN
I
II
OLD MOTHER LAIDINWOOL
CHAPTER HEADINGS
JUST-SO STORIES
THE LOOKING-GLASS
THE QUEEN'S MEN
THE CITY OF SLEEP
THE WIDOWER
THE PRAYER OF MIRIAM COHEN
THE SONG OF THE LITTLE HUNTER
GOW'S WATCH
ACT II. SCENE 2
THE WISHING CAPS
'BY THE HOOF OF THE WILD GOAT'
SONG OF THE RED WAR-BOAT
MORNING SONG IN THE JUNGLE
BLUE ROSES
A RIPPLE SONG
BUTTERFLIES
MY LADY'S LAW
THE NURSING SISTER
THE LOVE SONG OF HAR DYAL
A DEDICATION
MOTHER O' MINE
THE ONLY SON
MOWGLI'S SONG AGAINST PEOPLE
ROMULUS AND REMUS
CHAPTER HEADINGS
THE JUNGLE BOOKS
THE EGG-SHELL
THE KING'S TASK
POSEIDON'S LAW
A TRUTHFUL SONG
A SMUGGLER'S SONG
KING HENRY VII. AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS
THE WET LITANY
THE BALLAD OF MINEPIT SHAW
HERIOT'S FORD
FRANKIE'S TRADE
THE JUGGLER'S SONG
THORKILD'S SONG
'ANGUTIVAUN TAINA'
HUNTING-SONG OF THE SEEONEE PACK
SONG OF THE MEN'S SIDE
DARZEE'S CHAUNT
THE FOUR ANGELS
THE PRAYER