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Title: Songs from Books
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Release Date: April 3, 2005 [EBook #15529]
Language: English
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SONGS FROM BOOKS
BY
RUDYARD KIPLING
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1914
COPYRIGHT
_All rights reserved, including that of?translation into foreign languages,?including the Scandinavian_
_First Edition October_ 1913
_Reprinted October (twice), November_ 1913, 1914
_PREFACE_
_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._
_RUDYARD KIPLING._
'_CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS_'
_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!'_
CONTENTS
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
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