. The second jungle book. e is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear ! Ere the moon has climbed the mountain, ere the rocks areribbed with light,When the downward-dipping tails are dank and drear,Comes a breathing hard behind thee, s?iuffle-smiffle throughthe night—It is Fear, O Little Hunter, it is Fear!On thy knees and draw the bow ; bid the shrilling arrow go ; In the empty mocking thicket plunge the spear;But thy hands are loosed and weak, and the blood has leftthy cheek—It is Fear, O Litde Hunter, it is Fear ! When the heat-cloud sucks the tempest, when the sliveredpine trees the bl
. The second jungle book. e is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear ! Ere the moon has climbed the mountain, ere the rocks areribbed with light,When the downward-dipping tails are dank and drear,Comes a breathing hard behind thee, s?iuffle-smiffle throughthe night—It is Fear, O Little Hunter, it is Fear!On thy knees and draw the bow ; bid the shrilling arrow go ; In the empty mocking thicket plunge the spear;But thy hands are loosed and weak, and the blood has leftthy cheek—It is Fear, O Litde Hunter, it is Fear ! When the heat-cloud sucks the tempest, when the sliveredpine trees the blinding, blaring rain-squalls lash and veer;Through the trumpets of the thunder rings a voice more loudthan all—-It is Fear, O Little Hunter, it is Fear ! THE SONG OF THE LITTLE HUNTER 141 Now the spates are banked and deep ; now the footlessboulders leap;Now the lightning shows each littlest leaf-rib clear,But thy throat is shut and dried, and thy heart against thysideHammers : Fear, O Little Hunter—this is Fear !.
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