The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-01
THE TRUCE OF THE BEAR"
RUDNARD KIPLING'S LATEST
GREAT pOEM
There is No Truce With Adam-zad,
the Bear That Walks Like a
Man."

Iished i'm verse. 1t is the third recent
poem of Kipliug's which has set the
world agog. The first was "The YAM
pirc," written to accompany Burne
Jones painting with the same title, a
poem that carried the picture rather
han the picture carrying the poem.
The second was "The Recessional,"
which added lustre to Nictoria's Dia-
mond Jubilee.
Now comes "The Truce of the Bear"
called out by the Cars disarmament
proposal. and again Kipling has set
the world tallling-and thinking.
Here is the poem complete:
Yearly. with tent and rifle, our care
less white men go
BY the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot
i'm the vale below.
Yearly by Muttianee he follows our
white men in
Matun. the old blind beggar, bandag-
ed from brow to chin.
Eycless, noseless. and lipless tooth
less, of broken speech.
Seeking a dole at the doorway he
mumbles his tale to each
Over and over the atory, ending as
he began:
Make We no truce with Adam-zad-
the bear that walks like a man!
There was a flint in my musket-
pricked and primed was the pan
When | want hunting Adam-zad-the
bear that stands like a man.
looked my last on the timber, | look
ed my last on the snow.
When | went hunting Adam-zad, fifty
summers ago!
Il knew his time and seasons as he
knew mine that fed
BY night in the ripened maize field
and robbed my house of bread
knew his strength and cunning. as
he knew mine that crept
At dawn to the crowded goat-pens
and plundered while | slept.
Up from his stony playground
down from his well-digged lair
Out on the naked ridges ran Adam
zad the bear,
Grooming. grunting, and roaring,
heavy with stolen meals.
Two long marches to northward and
was at his heels!
..'T,yo full marches to nortbward at
the fall of the second night.
came on mine enemy Adam-zad. all
weary from his fight.
There was charge in the musket-
pricl>ed and primed was the pan.
/ My finger crooked on the trigger
when he reared up like a man.
"Horrible. hairy, human. with paws
like hands in PRAYER
Making his supplication. rose Adam
zad the bear!
| | looked at the swaying shoulders, at
inc Pa"hch " ."'% ana SWING.
w" ''. I'V'' ""H '""''''" WIZ u'N
W. '''' ''''''H''""S P'e'o'"S '"''@'
"Touched with pity and wonder. / did
not fire then
have looked no more on women-I
have walked no more with men.
/ Nearer he tottered and nearer. with
rno,,, P""S ,,Nt ,a i''. t',S WA, Pray
"" w. J'" HiI"" paw
'Pi'" my '''' away
sudden, silent, and savage. soaring
as flame the blow
FaceIeSS | fell before his feet fifty
summers ago.
II heard him grunt and chuckle-T
'rro Ioft mo- bIinI - a., ,I,,.I.i;,,1.
ond ,bn ii+t w. ,''o ,,''' Na'ns years
''''N ''''''S VI ''''"'
"Now We go down in the morning
That IoaJ + " bara - fal te IN eW WEI, S'ylf
~ , amd ,o,a m"' r. ,v nrJ IT. ,ne n'.uu .I
gu" l""so ~ nave 'e"ru1 inIle,
shoot, Co." ra,t ,''' I , ''''e' 'n"'
PINT na,, ,oG i;r, an" ,lug'
,ho,' ,,,ha+ IT,, ny p',u'Sr ana
"'''' "'"' can no.
(Flesh like Stag in the furnace, knob
Matun the old hind be@gar : bo ,ri.os
o,od I'll, g.. So ~ 7''''
"Rousr hin, o+ nno,, i, tI,a r"' e.,
low and nrass him hard