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Title: Songs from Books

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Release Date: April 3, 2005 [EBook #15529]

Language: English

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SONGS FROM BOOKS

BY

RUDYARD KIPLING

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1914

COPYRIGHT

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

_First Edition October_ 1913

_Reprinted October (twice), November_ 1913, 1914

_PREFACE_

_I have collected in this volume practically all the
verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books.
In several cases where only a few lines of verse were
originally used, I have given in full the song, etc., from
which they were taken._

_RUDYARD KIPLING._

'_CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS_'

_Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die.
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
The Cities rise again.

This season's Daffodil,
She never hears,
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last year's:
But with bold countenance,
And knowledge small,
Esteems her seven days' continuance
To be perpetual.

So Time that is o'er-kind,
To all that be,
Ordains us e'en as blind,
As bold as she:
That in our very death,
And burial sure,
Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith,
'See how our works endure!'_

CONTENTS

SONG BOOK PAGE
Angutivaun Taina Second Jungle Book 292
Astrologer's Song, An Rewards and Fairies 164
Ballad of Minepit Shaw, The Rewards and Fairies 266
Bee Boy's Song, The Puck of Pook's Hill 172
Bees and the Flies, The Actions and Reactions 89
Blue Roses Light that Failed 225
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