Songs from Books by Rudyard Kipling
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The dumb ghost follow his enemy!
_The Return of Imray._ Before my spring I garnered autumn's gain, Out of her time my field was white with grain, The year gave up her secrets, to my woe. Forced and deflowered each sick season lay In mystery of increase and decay; I saw the sunset ere men see the day, Who am too wise in all I should not know. _Without Benefit of Clergy._ KIM Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised, With idiot moons and stars retracting stars? Creep thou between--thy coming's all unnoised. Heaven hath her high, as Earth her baser, wars. Heir to these tumults, this affright, that fray (By Adam's, fathers', own, sin bound alway); Peer up, draw out thy horoscope and say Which planet mends thy threadbare fate, or mars. |
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