What of the hunting, hunter bold

 What of the hunting, hunter bold?
   Brother, the watch was long and cold.
 What of the quarry ye went to kill?
   Brother, he crops in the Jungle still.

 Where is the power that made your pride?
   Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
 Where is the haste that ye hurry by?
   Brother, I go to my lair - to die!

by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) , no title, from The Jungle Book, published 1894

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

by Dora Estella Bright (1863-1951) , "Tiger, Tiger", published 1903 [voice and piano], from SIx Songs from "The Jungle Book", no. ?
by Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) , "Tiger! Tiger!", 1905, published 1912 [tenor solo ad libitum, TTBBB chorus a cappella], from The Jungle Book, no. 9.

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