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Poem by Rudyard Kipling


Beast and Man in India. 4. Pigs and Buffaloes


Dark children of the mere and marsh,
Wallow and waste and lea,
Outcaste they wait at the village gate
With folk of low degree.

Their pasture is in no man's land,
Their food the cattle's scorn;
Their rest is mire and their desire
The thicket and the thorn.

But woe to those that break their sleep,
And woe to those that dare
To rouse the herd-bull from his keep,
The wild boar from his lair!



Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling's other poems:
  1. The First Chantey
  2. Tarrant Moss
  3. «Limits and Renewals». 1932. 16. Song of Seventy Horses
  4. London Stone
  5. The Cursing of Stephen


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