The Pack

NOW this is the law of the jungle,
as old and as true as the sky.
For the wolf that may keep it will prosper,
But the wolf that shall break it must die.

As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk,
the Law runneth forward and back.
For the strength of the pack is the wolf,
and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

The Jungle, Rudyard Kipling