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I rarely post poetry, but I’ve always loved this and it’s so well known. My Hashtag Games entry’s given me the perfect excuse to share it. (My sincere apologies to Rudyard for “Quiff.”)

Here you go…

Bevan Thomas Mar 7

The only other creature allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.

"The man’s cub?" he said. "I speak for the man’s cub. There is no harm in a man’s cub. I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. Let him run with the Pack, and be entered with the others. I myself will teach him."

- Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"

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John Griogair Bell Feb 24

Photo of Rudyard Kipling, 15 June 1895 https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/24/photo-of-rudyard-kipling-15-june-1895/ #hermeneuticon #iconomancy #RudyardKipling

WIST Quotations Feb 16

A quotation from Kipling

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English writer
School History, “Dane-Geld (A.D. 980-1016),” st. 3-4 (1911) [with C.R.L. Fletcher]

More about this quote: wist.info/kipling-rudyard/3744…

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Kipling, Rudyard - School History, "Dane-Geld (A.D. 980-1016)," st. 3-4 (1911) [with C.R.L. Fletcher] | WIST Quotations

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: -- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the…

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Bevan Thomas Feb 19

"It is the bone of a man’s head," [Mowgli] said quietly.

"They came to take the treasure away many years ago." The White Cobra fairly shook with evil delight.... "I spoke to them in the dark, and they lay still...."

- Rudyard Kipling, "The Second Jungle Book"
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