The Jungle Book(丛林奇谭)
Rudyard Kipling
Chapter 1Mowgli's Brothers
Now Rann the Kite brings home the night
That Mang the Bat sets free–
The herds are shut in byre and hut
For loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power,
Talon and tush and claw.
Oh, hear the call!–Good hunting all
That keep the Jungle Law!
Night-Song in the Jungle
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills
when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself,
yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of
the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray
nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon
shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. "Augrh!”
said Father Wolf. “It is time to hunt again.” He was going to
spring down hill when a little s…