Rudyard Kipling poem

On vacation in a converted 1800s barn on the Maine coast. Looking thru the bookshelves I found the Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling, dated 1907. Check out The Truce of the Bear.
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_trucebear.htm
Don't read it Scotty, it'll give you nightmares.