Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/239

Rh The one I'll shoot at twilight tide,

At dawn I'll drive the other;

The black shall mourn for hoof and hide,

The white man for his brother!

'Tis war, red war, I'll give you then,

War till my sinews fail,

For the wrong you have done to a chief of men

And a thief of the Zukka Kheyl.

And if I fall to your hand afresh

I give you leave for the sin,

That you cram my throat with the foul pig's flesh

And swing me in the skin!