<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510996" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hyaenas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After the burial-parties leave<br>And the baffled kites have fled;<br>The wise hyaenas come out at eve<br>To take account of our dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How he died and why he died<br>Troubles them not a whit.<br>They snout the bushes and stones aside<br>And dig till they come to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are only resolute they shall eat<br>That they and their mates may thrive,<br>And they know that the dead are safer meat<br>Than the weakest thing alive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(For a goat may butt, and a worm may sting,<br>And a child will sometimes stand;<br>But a poor dead soldier of the King<br>Can never lift a hand.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They whoop and halloo and scatter the dirt<br>Until their tushes white<br>Take good hold in the army shirt,<br>And tug the corpse to light,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the pitiful face is shewn again<br>For an instant ere they close;<br>But it is not discovered to living men --<br>Only to God and to those</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who, being soulless, are free from shame,<br>Whatever meat they may find.<br>Nor do they defile the dead man's name --<br>That is reserved for his kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510996" data-title="The Hyaenas de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="After the burial-parties leave And the baffled kites have fled; The wise hyaenas come out at eve To take account of our dead. How he died and why he died Troubles them not a whit. They snout the bushes and stones aside And dig till they come to i..."></div> </div> </div>

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