Produced by Paul Murray, S.R. Ellison and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. SONGS FROM BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1914 COPYRIGHT _All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_ _First Edition October_ 1913 _Reprinted October (twice), November_ 1913, 1914 _PREFACE_ _I have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books. In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used, I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken._ _RUDYARD KIPLING._ '_CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS_' _Cities and Thrones and Powers, Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die. But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth, The Cities rise again. This season's Daffodil, She never hears, What change, what chance, what chill, Cut down last year's: But with bold countenance, And knowledge small, Esteems her seven days' continuance To be perpetual. So Time that is o'er-kind, To all that be, Ordains us e'en as blind, As bold as she: That in our very death, And burial sure, Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith, 'See how our works endure!'_ CONTENTS SONG BOOK PAGE Angutivaun Taina Second Jungle Book 292 Astrologer's Song, An Rewards and Fairies 164 Ballad of Minepit Shaw, The Rewards and Fairies 266 Bee Boy's Song, The Puck of Pook's Hill 172 Bees and the Flies, The Actions and Reactions 89 Blue Roses Light that Failed 225 British-Roman Song, A Puck 96 Brookland Road Rewards and Fairies 10 Butterflies Traffics and Discoveries 228 'By the Hoof of the Wild Goat' Plain Tales 217 Captive, The Traffics and Discoveries 71 Carol, A Rewards and Fairies 41 _Chapter Headings_ Beast and Man, etc. 132 " " Jungle Books 245 " " Just-So Stories 182 " " Naulahka, Light that Failed 78 " " Plain Tales 30 Charm, A Rewards and Fairies 26 Children's Song, The Puck 143 Chil's Song Second Jungle Book 69 'Cities and Thrones and Powers' Puck vii City of Sleep, The The Day's Work 198 Cold Iron Rewards and Fairies 36