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yinepus_brat ([personal profile] yinepus_brat) wrote2006-12-28 01:21 pm

Hey Darkenna, found that poem we were discussing at the club last week...

(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

Good Poem (one of hundreds of his)

[identity profile] saltydognh.livejournal.com 2006-12-28 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
see this one

the Hymn of Breaking Strain
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~branderr/risk_essay/hymn_strain.html

Re: Good Poem (one of hundreds of his)

[identity profile] ursa-mater.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
oh, that one I like! Thank you

[identity profile] darkenna.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ah ha! I knew it was out there. Didn't know it was Kipling tho. Sweet. : ) Thanx!

[identity profile] ursa-mater.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
My pleasure my dear. My pleasure.

[identity profile] jamailla.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Why do you always find the coolest Callisto icons???


*yoink*

[identity profile] ursa-mater.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Which Callisto icon would that be hrmmm?

[identity profile] jamailla.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
*yoink* ummm all of then



Is it a bad thing when u can name the episode the pic came from?

[identity profile] ursa-mater.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...

YES! *snerk*

[identity profile] jessierarr.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
HA. Heart. :D Better recognize!

Love the poem.

[identity profile] ursa-mater.livejournal.com 2006-12-29 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a truth in them there words!