The Second Jungle Book

“You may kill for yourselves, and your mates,and your cubs as they need, and you can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, andSEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.””

— Rudyard Kipling

“What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.””

— Rudyard Kipling

“THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE Just to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo always recited them in a sort of sing-song) a few of the laws that apply to the wolves. There are, of course, hundreds and hundreds more, but these will do for specimens of the simpler rulings.””

— Rudyard Kipling

“ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with””

— Rudyard Kipling

“A SONG OF KABIR Oh, 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”

— Rudyard Kipling

“THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT The night we felt the earth would moveWe stole and plucked him by the hand,Because we loved him with the loveThat knows but cannot understand. And when the roaring hillside broke,And all our world fell down in rain,We saved him, we the Little Folk;But lo! he does not come again! Mourn now, we saved him for the sakeOf such poor love as wild ones may.Mourn ye! Our brother will not wake,And his own kind drive us away! Dirge of the Langurs.””

— Rudyard Kipling

“HOW FEAR CAME The stream is shrunk”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is”

— Rudyard Kipling

“This talk went in at one ear and out at the other, for a boy who spends his life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo's words came true, and Mowgli saw all the Jungle working under the Law.””

— Rudyard Kipling