This passage echoes provocatively within my memory banks; it will surface
eventually, meanwhile there comes readily to mind an analogous sentiment
expressed by RK in his poem 'A Ballad of Burial' - a posthumous desire to
get back to the Himalayas (Departmental Ditties);
If down here I chance to die,
Solemnly I beg you take
All that is left of 'I'
To the Hills for old sake's sake.
Pack me very thoroughly
In the ice that used to slake
Pegs I drank when I was dry -
This observe for old sake's sake
etc etc
The last sentence is:
Rail me then, on my decease,
To the Hills for old sake's sake !
Regards
Michael Jefferson
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Date: Saturday, October 16, 1999 1:11 AM
Subject: Source of quote
>Hello.
>I am wanting to locate the source of the following quote.
>
>"...that is the true smell of the Himlayas, and if once it creeps into
>the blood of a man, that man will at the last, forgetting all else,
>return to the hills to die". Kipling
>
>Any help would be appreciated!
>
>Regards.
>Tim.
>
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