Rik-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunter with eyeballs of flame.

Give him the Thanks of the Birds,

Bowing with tail-feathers spread!

Praise him with nightingale words⁠—

Nay, I will praise him instead.

Hear! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, with eyeballs of red!

Darzee’s Chaunt

(Sung in Honor of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi)