Ocupation: Writer
Life: December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936
Birthday: December 30
Death: January 18
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!
source: Rudyard Kipling (1993). “The Jungle Book”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions
topic: Morning, Lost Love, Kissing, Sugar Cane