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And round me, in the mango-tope.
No sound disturbs the stillness wide
But the horse tethered at my side
Cropping the herbage of the slope.
All human stress has died away.
As if life, pausing, held apart,
As if this vain world’s fretting heart
Stood still to hear the silence pray.
In many a mud-walled haunt of man
To-night the screaming conch will blare
—God knows what forces throng the air
Above these plains of Hindoostan.
From under every banyan-tree
Whose roots entwine the reddened stone
Carved with some god that lurks alone
Beneath the aerial canopy.
From every grove within the land
Whose shadows hide a crumbling shrine
7i
And round me, in the mango-tope.
No sound disturbs the stillness wide
But the horse tethered at my side
Cropping the herbage of the slope.
All human stress has died away.
As if life, pausing, held apart,
As if this vain world’s fretting heart
Stood still to hear the silence pray.
In many a mud-walled haunt of man
To-night the screaming conch will blare
—God knows what forces throng the air
Above these plains of Hindoostan.
From under every banyan-tree
Whose roots entwine the reddened stone
Carved with some god that lurks alone
Beneath the aerial canopy.
From every grove within the land
Whose shadows hide a crumbling shrine
7i
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Verses > (83) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129139213 |
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| Description | By Violet Jacob. |
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| Shelfmark | T.9.f |
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| Description | Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was born into an aristocratic family who had lived at the House of Dun near Montrose since the 15th century. Her classic novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising, 'Flemington” (1911), was highly regarded by John Buchan and is still in print. Jacob had a deep appreciation of the Angus dialect and countryside, and this is evident in her celebrated Scots language poetry in volumes such as 'Song of Angus' (1915). |
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| Description | A selection of classic out-of-copyright Scottish poetry, prose and children’s stories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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