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(an excerpt from)
The Female of the Species
by
Rudyard Kipling
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
...
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
(The entire poem can be found here
The Female of the Species
by
Rudyard Kipling
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
...
And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.
(The entire poem can be found here
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Good Poem (one of hundreds of his)
Date: 2006-12-28 07:27 pm (UTC)From:the Hymn of Breaking Strain
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~branderr/risk_essay/hymn_strain.html
Re: Good Poem (one of hundreds of his)
Date: 2006-12-29 04:35 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2006-12-29 03:09 am (UTC)From:*yoink*
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Date: 2006-12-29 12:13 pm (UTC)From:Is it a bad thing when u can name the episode the pic came from?
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Date: 2006-12-29 03:34 pm (UTC)From:YES! *snerk*
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Date: 2006-12-29 11:06 am (UTC)From:Love the poem.
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