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"I will remember what I was. I am sick of rope and chain.I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar-cane,I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs.I will go out until the day, until the morning break,Out to the winds' untainted kiss, the waters' clean caress:I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket-stake.I will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless!" — Toomai of the Elephants, from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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