Explore "Chil's Song" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
[This is the song that Chil sang as the kites dropped down one after / another to the river-bed, when the great fight was finished. Chil is / good friends with everybody, but he is a cold-blooded kind of creature / at heart, because he knows that almost everybody in the Jungle comes to / him in the long-run.]
/ These were my companions going forth by night -- / (For Chil! Look you, for Chil! ) / Now come I to whistle them the ending of the fight. / (Chil! Vanguards of Chil! ) / Word they gave me overhead of quarry newly slain, / Word I gave them underfoot of buck upon the plain. / Here's an end of every trail -- they shall not speak again!