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LETTING IN THE JUNGLE

Veil them, cover them, wall them round,
Blossom and creeper and weed;
Let us forget the sight and the sound,
And the smell and the touch of the breed!

Fat black ash by the altarstone
Here is the white-foot rain!
And the does bring forth in the fields unsown,
And none may affright them again;
And the blind-walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown,
And none may inhabit again!

You 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