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by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)

By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed
Language: English 
   From the unpublished papers of McIntosh Jallaludin

By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed
From the cliff where she lay in the Sun
Fell the Stone
To the Tarn where the daylight is lost,
So she fell from the light of the Sun,
And alone!

Now the fall was ordained from the first
With the Goat and the Cliff and the Tarn,
But the Stone
Knows only her life is accursed
As she sinks in the depths of the Tarn,
And alone!

O Thou Who hast builded the World,
O Thou Who hast lighted the Sun,
O Thou Who hast darkened the Tarn,
Judge Thou
The sin of the Stone that was hurled
By the Goat from the light of the Sun,
As she sinks in the mire of the Tarn,
Even now - even now - even now!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), no title, appears in Plain Tales from the Hills, heading the story "To be Filed for Reference", 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 fall of the stone", 1901-4, published 1958, rev. 1923 [strings, harp, piano, harmonium, clarinet, 2 alto saxophones], from The Jungle Book, no. 1. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 139

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