by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Red dog
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'1 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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1 elk found in forest-clad parts of India
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1 elk found in forest-clad parts of India
Authorship:
- by Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), from The Second Jungle Book, heading 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. [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: 9
Word count: 87