Andrew Lycett asks how Kipling got from "wings of the morning" in Psalm 139
to "Horns of the Morning" in "Screw-guns". I think he does it via
Tennyson's "The Princess". In a letter of 6 March 1890 (Pinney, Letters
vol.2, p. 10) Kipling writes about having "walked 'with Death and morning on
the silver horns' in the Himalayas". Pinney notes this quotation as "The
Princess", VII, 189.
For the Pit, see the story "At the Pit's Mouth" (Wee Willie Winkie),
at the end of which a sinful character falls off a cliff near Simla. Lisa
Lewis
