StoryTitle("caps", "Darzee's Chant ") ?>
(Sung in honor of Rikki-tikki-tavi)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singer and tailor am I—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Doubled the joys that I know—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Proud of my lilt to the sky,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Proud of the house that I sew—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over and under, so weave I my music—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " so weave I the house that I sew.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing to your fledglings again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Mother, oh lift up your head!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Evil that plagued us is slain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Death in the garden lies dead.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Terror that hid in the roses is impotent—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " flung on the dung-hill and dead!", "") ?>
PagePoem(213, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who has delivered us, who?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Tell me his nest and his name.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rikki, the valiant, the true,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Tikki, with eyeballs of flame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rikk-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " the hunter with eyeballs of flame!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give him the Thanks of the Birds,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Bowing with tail feathers spread!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Praise him with nightingale words—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Nay, I will praise him instead.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hear! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " with eyeballs of red!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
(Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)