“Now Rann the Kite brings home the nightThat Mang the Bat sets free—The herds are shut in byre and hutFor loosed till dawn are we.This is the hour of pride and power,Talon and tusk and claw.Oh, hear the call!--Good hunting allThat keep the Jungle Law!”

Rudyard Kipling

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