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BALOO
FOR the sake of him who showed / One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, / Keep the Law the Man-Pack make / For thy blind old Baloo's sake! / Clean or tainted, hot or stale, / Hold it as it were the Trail, / Through the day and through the night, / Questing neither left nor right. / For the sake of him who loves / Thee beyond all else that moves, / When thy Pack would make thee pain, / Say: 'Tabaqui sings again. ' / When thy Pack would work thee ill, / Say: 'Shere Khan is yet to kill. ' / When the knife is drawn to slay, / Keep the Law and go thy way. / (Root and honey, palm and spathe, / Guard a cub from harm and scathe! ) / _Wood and Water, Wind and Tree, / Jungle-Favour go with thee! _