by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
For our white and our excellent nights ‑...
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!
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Note for line 5: "sambhur'" is an elk found in forest-clad parts of India
Text Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), no title, appears in The Second Jungle Book, from the story Red Dog, first published 1895 [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), "Red dog", 1941, published 1958 [ men's chorus a cappella ], from The Jungle Book, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Louis Fabulet (1862 - 1933) , no title, appears in Le Second Livre de la jungle, first published 1899 and by Robert, vicomte d'Humières (1868 - 1915) , no title, appears in Le Second Livre de la jungle, first published 1899 ; composed by Alfred Cozanet, as Jean d'Udine.
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Line count: 9
Word count: 85