Rudyard Kipling's "The Law of the Jungle"

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🗓️ 3 February 2022

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)[1] was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888).[2] His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" (1899), and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story.[3] His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift."[4][5]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Daily Poem, which is brought to you this month by Bibliophiles.
0:04.7	Today is Thursday, February 3rd, 2022, and I am David Kern.
0:10.5	Today's poem is by English, short story writer, poet, novelist.
0:15.0	He's very famous. His name was Rudyard Kipling.
0:16.8	He lived from December of 1865 until January of 1936.
0:21.7	He is, of course, best known for works like The Jungle Book and Kim and the short story,
0:28.4	The Man Who Would Be King.
0:30.0	And the poem that I'm going to read today is, well, it's from the Jungle Book.
0:34.3	It's from the second Jungle Book.
0:36.8	And it's called The Law of the Jungle. We haven't
0:39.4	done a poem kind of for kids in a long time, and I felt like it was time. And why not do a poem
0:45.9	that's for kids? It's also from a great story, and thus is also for adults. And so the law of the
0:53.4	jungle fits the bill and all counts.
0:55.7	So here we go.
0:56.3	This is Rudyard Kipling's The Law of the Jungle.
0:59.6	It's a little long, so I'm only going to read it once.
1:01.6	But it's a great one.
1:04.2	Now this is the law of the jungle.
1:08.0	As old and as true as the sky.
1:13.9	And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the law run a forward
1:20.4	and back, for the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
1:30.3	Wash daily from nose tip to tail tip, drink deeply, but never too deep. And remember the night is for hunting and forget not the
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