Red dog

For our white and our excellent nights - for the nights of swift running,
Fair ranging, far-seeing, good hunting, sure cunning!
For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew has departed!
For the rush through the mist, and the quarry blind-started!
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur'1 has wheeled and is standing at bay,
For the risk and the riot of night!
For the sleep at the lair-mouth by day -
It is met, and we go to the fight.
Bay! O Bay!

by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) , from The Second Jungle Book, heading the story "Red Dog", published 1895

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) , "Red dog", 1941, published 1958 [male chorus a cappella], from The Jungle Book, no. 6.

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