Jungle Book (Version 3)

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0010" id="link2H_4_0010"> </SPAN></p> <div style="height: 4em;"> <br/><br/><br/><br/> </div> <h2> Darzee&rsquo;s Chant </h2> <p> (Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)<br/> <br/> Singer and tailor am I&mdash;<br/> Doubled the joys that I know&mdash;<br/> Proud of my lilt to the sky,<br/> Proud of the house that I sew&mdash;<br/> Over and under, so weave I my music&mdash;so weave I the house that I<br/> sew.<br/> <br/> Sing to your fledglings again,<br/> Mother, oh lift up your head!<br/> Evil that plagued us is slain,<br/> Death in the garden lies dead.<br/> Terror that hid in the roses is impotent&mdash;flung on the dung-hill<br/> and dead!<br/> <br/> Who has delivered us, who?<br/> Tell me his nest and his name.<br/> Rikki, the valiant, the true,<br/> Tikki, with eyeballs of flame,<br/> Rikk-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eyeballs of<br/> flame!<br/> <br/> Give him the Thanks of the Birds,<br/> Bowing with tail feathers spread!<br/> Praise him with nightingale words&mdash;<br/> Nay, I will praise him instead.<br/> Hear! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, with<br/> eyeballs of red!<br/> <br/> (Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is<br/> lost.)<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />