Second Jungle Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SONG OF KABIR H, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his lands! He has gone from the guddee and put on the shroud, And departed in guise of bairagi avowed! Now the white road to Delhi is mat for his feet, The sal and the kikar must guard him from heat; His home is the camp, and the waste, and the crowd ? He is seeking the Way as bairagi avowed ! He has looked upon Man, and his eyeballs are clear (There was One; there is One, and but One, saith Kabir); The Red Mist of Doing has thinned to a cloud ? He has taken the Path for bairagi avowed ! To learn and discern of his brother the clod, Of his brother the brute, and his brother the God. He has gone from the council and put on the shroud (" Can ye hear ? " saith Kabir), a bairagi avowed ! LETTING IN THE JUNGLE Veil them, cover them, wall them round ? Blossom, and creeper, and weed ? Let us forget the sight and the sound, The smell and the touch of the breed ! Fat black ash by the altar-stone, Here is the white-foot rain, And the does bring forth in the fields unsown, And none shall affright them again; And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown, And none shall inhabit again ! LETTING IN THE JUNGLE ]OU will remember, if you have read the tales in the first Jungle Book, that, after Mowgli had pinned Shere Khan's hide to the Council Rock, he told as many as were left of the Seeonee Pack that henceforward he would hunt in the Jungle alone; and the four children of Mother and Father Wolf said that they would hunt with him. But it is not easy to change one's life all in a minute ? particularly in the Jungle. The first thing Mowgli did, when the disorderly Pack had slunk off, was to go to the home-cave, and sleepfor a d...