“There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid”

— Rudyard Kipling

The Long Trail http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/longtrail.html, Stanza 5.
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Context: There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;
But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea
In the heel of the North-East Trade.

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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