Identifier: secondjunglebook00kipliala (find matches)
Title: The second jungle book
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Subjects: Animals, Legends and stories of
Publisher: London New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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NCE a ripple came to land In the golden sunset burning—Lapped against a maidens hand,By the ford returning. Dainty foot atid gentk breast—Safe across be glad and rest. Maiden, 7vait,^ the ripple saith ; IVait ajvhile, for I am Death I Where my lover calls I go—Shame it were to treat him coldly- Twas a fish that circled so,Turning over boldly. Dainty foot and tender heart., Wait the loaded ferry-cart. J Fait, ah, 7oait! the ripple saith ; Alaiden, wait, for I am Death ! When my lover calls I haste— Dame Disdain was never wedded !Ripple—ripple round her waist,Clear the current eddied. Foolish heart and faithful hand,Little feet that touched tio land.Far away the ripple fled.Ripple—ripple—rtmning red !
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THE KINGS ANKUS These are the Four that are never content : that have never been filled since the Dews began— Jacalas mouth, and the glut of the Kite, and the hands of the Ape and the Eyes of Man. r / c- ■ ■ Jutigle Saymg. AA, the big rock-python, hadchanged his skin for per-haps the two hundredthtime since his birth ; andMowgh, who never forgotthat he owed his Hfe toKaa for a nights work atCold Lairs, which you mayperhaps remember, went tocongratulate him. Skin-changing always makes asnake moody and depressed_ till the new skin begins toshine and look beautiful. Kaa never made sport ofMowgH any more, but accepted him, as the otherJungle People did, for the Master of the Jungle, and

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