by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Language: English
For our white and our excellent nights - for the nights of swift running, Fair ranging, far-seeing, good hunting, sure cunning! For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew has departed! For the rush through the mist, and the quarry blind-started! For the cry of our mates when the sambhur' has wheeled and is standing at bay, For the risk and the riot of night! For the sleep at the lair-mouth by day - It is met, and we go to the fight. Bay! O Bay!
Note for line 5: "sambhur'" is an elk found in forest-clad parts of India
Composition:
- Set to music by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 - 1961), "Red dog", 1941, published 1958 [ men's chorus a cappella ], from The Jungle Book, no. 6
Text Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), no title, appears in The Second Jungle Book, from the story Red Dog, first published 1895
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Line count: 9
Word count: 85