Letting in the Jungle (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)

Letting in the Jungle

By Rudyard Kipling

Veil them, cover them, wall them round — 

    Blossom, and creeper, and weed — 

Let us forget the sight and the sound,

    The smell and the touch of the breed!

Fat black ash by the altar-stone.

    Here is the white-foot rain,

And the does bring forth in the fields unsown,

    And none shall affright them again;

And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown,

    And none shall inhabit again!