LT 11 Female of the Species 
                               Lyrics by Rudyard Kipling

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride
He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, 
    For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When Nog, the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail, 
    For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws
‘Twas the women not the warriors turn those stark enthusiasts pale 
    For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say
For the woman that god gave him isn't his to give away
But when hunter meets with husband, each confirms the other's tale, 
    That the female of his species is more deadly than the male.

She who faces death by torture for each life beneath her breast
May not deal in doubt or pity, must not swerve or fact or jest
These are purely male diversions, not in these her honor dwells
    She, the other law they live by is that law and nothing else

Unprovoked and off her charges, even so the she-bear fights
Speech that trips, corrodes or poisons, even so the cobra bites
Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw
    And the victim writhes in anguish like the Jesuit with the squaw.

So it comes that man, the coward when he gathers to confer-
With his fellow braves in council dare not leave a place for her
While at war with life and conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
    To some god of abstract justice that no woman understands

And man knows it- knows more over that the woman that god gave him
Must command but may not govern, shall enthrall but not enslave him
And she knows because she warns him and her instincts never fail 
    That the female of her species is more deadly than the male.

Performer(s) Sine Peregrina