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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
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