I really need to get my hands on the Jungle Books; that’s a major missing piece of my library.
However, I do have a very good copy of the 1909 Edition of Kipling’s “Departmental Ditties and Barrack-Room Ballads”, and there is nothing I know of that compares to his prose.
” The herald read his titles forth,
We set the logs aglow;
Friends of the English, free from fear,
‘Baron of Luni to Jeysulmeer,
‘Lord of the Desert of Bikaneer,
‘King of the Jungle, -go!’
From “The Last Sutter”
Rudyard Kipling
My favorite: “You may talk of gin and beer, when you’re quartered safe out here, and sent to penny fights at Aldershot it, but when it comes to slaughter, you’ll do your work on water and lick the bloomin’ boots of ‘im that’s got it....”