George Engel asked where the poem "The Seven Nights of Creation", 25 lines of
which appear in "Beast & Man in India", could be read in full.
Another part of this poem consisting of 32 lines appeared in "Schoolboy
Lyrics" in 1881as "Fragment of a Projected Poem". The complete poem of some
144 lines first appeared in the Calcutta Review for April 1886.
The "Schoolboy Lyrics" fragment was collected by RK in the Deluxe, Outward
Bound, Burwash and Sussex editions but the whole was first collected in
"Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling", Andrew Rutherford, The Clarendon Press
(1986).
Roger Ayers
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