Explore "Sleipner," Late "Thurinda" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
There are men, both good and wise, who hold that in a future state / Dumb creatures we have cherished here below / Will give us joyous welcome as we pass the Golden Gate. / Is it folly if I hope it may be so? / -- _The Place Where the Old Horse Died._
If there were any explanation available here, I should be the first / person to offer it. Unfortunately, there is not, and I am compelled to / confine myself to the facts of the case as vouched for by Hordene and / confirmed by "Guj," who is the last man in the world to throw away a / valuable horse for nothing.[16]