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Atavism

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Deep in the jungle vast and dim,     That knew not a white man's feet,     I smelt the odour of sun-warmed fur,     Musky, savage, and sweet.     Far it was from the huts of men     And the grass where Sambur feed;     I threw a stone at a Kadapu tree     That bled as a man might bleed.     Scent of fur and colour of blood: -     And the long dead instincts rose,     I followed the lure of my season's mate, -     And flew, bare-fanged, at my foes.     *         *         *     Pale days: and a league of laws     Made by the whims of men.     Would I were back with my furry cubs     In the dusk of a jungle den.

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