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PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 9. RUDYARD KIPLING by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: THEN IF ANY SCULPTOR HAD / CAPTURED IN MID-SPRING
Last Line: "YOU'D HAVE SAID ""THAT'S KIPLING."
Subject(s): KIPLING, RUDYARD (1865-1936);

THEN if any sculptor had
captured in mid-spring
father-wolf with one great pad,
grimly threatening

Mowgli, smiling bare and bold,
and cast them, softly stippling
bronze with leaves, half-green, half-gold,
you'd have said "That's Kipling."



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