by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide
Language: English
Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide, By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried; Long in the reh-grass, hidden and lone; Bund where the earth-rat's mounds are strown; Cave in the bank where the sly stream steals; Aloe that stabs at the belly and heels, Jump if you dare on a steed untried - Safer it is to go wide - go wide! Hark, from in front where the best men ride; - "Pull to the off, boys! Wide! Go wide!"
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- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), no title, appears in Plain Tales from the Hills, heading the story "Cupid's Arrows", first published 1888 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 - 1961), "The Peora hunt", 1906, published 1924 [strings, piano, harmonium, bassoon, contrabassoon, baritone saxophone], from The Jungle Book, no. 7. [text verified 1 time]
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