Explore "Mowgli's Song against People" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
/ I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines -- / I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines! / The roofs shall fade before it, / The house-beams shall fall, / And the Karela, the bitter Karela, / Shall cover it all!
/ In the gates of these your councils my people shall sing, / In the doors of these your garners the Bat-folk shall cling; / And the snake shall be your watchman, / By a hearthstone unswept; / For the Karela, the bitter Karela, / Shall fruit where ye slept!