约瑟夫·鲁德亚德·吉卜林/Joseph Rudyard Kipling
约瑟夫·鲁德亚德·吉卜林（Joseph Rudyard Kipling，1865-1936），英国著名作家、诗人。吉卜林的作品对20世纪初的世界文坛产生了巨大的影响，并获得了1907年的诺贝尔文学奖。其作品脍炙人口、轻松活跃，深受人们的喜爱，其中在世界广为流传的有《丛林之书》（1894）、《基姆》（1901）、短诗《如果》（1895）等。这些成就和荣誉让他成为20世纪英国最受欢迎的作家之一。
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.
When Mowgli left the wolf’s cave after the fight with the Pack at the Council Rock, he went down to the plowed lands where the villagers lived, but he would not stop there because it was too near to the jungle, and he knew that he had made at least one bad enemy at the Council. So he hurried on, keeping to the rough road that ran down the valley, and followed it at a steady jog-trot for nearly twenty miles, till he came to a country that he did not know. The valley opened out into a great plain dotted over with rocks and cut up by ravines. At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe. All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked. Mowgli walked on, for he was feeling hungry, and when he came to the village gate he saw the big thorn-bush that was drawn up before the gate at twilight, pushed to one side.