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Mayhap, thy spirit loved what mine loves best;
The tread of horses and the pride of life.
The jungle’s magic and the joy of strife.
The long nights spent beneath the spangled
sky—
O dead Mahommedan ! Thy passing guest
By these accepts from thee this meed of rest
Salaam, 0 Bkai !1
IV. EVENING IN THE OPIUM FIELDS
As pageants, marshalled by a masterhand,
So are the poppy-fields; in rose and red
And foam of white and livid purple spread,
Mile upon mile, they stretch on either hand;
Dark by the well the heavy mangoes stand.
Where labouring oxen pace with dusty tread
And dripping water-skins climb up to shed
Their gush upon the irrigated land.
1 Brother.
77
Mayhap, thy spirit loved what mine loves best;
The tread of horses and the pride of life.
The jungle’s magic and the joy of strife.
The long nights spent beneath the spangled
sky—
O dead Mahommedan ! Thy passing guest
By these accepts from thee this meed of rest
Salaam, 0 Bkai !1
IV. EVENING IN THE OPIUM FIELDS
As pageants, marshalled by a masterhand,
So are the poppy-fields; in rose and red
And foam of white and livid purple spread,
Mile upon mile, they stretch on either hand;
Dark by the well the heavy mangoes stand.
Where labouring oxen pace with dusty tread
And dripping water-skins climb up to shed
Their gush upon the irrigated land.
1 Brother.
77
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| Works by selected Scottish authors > Violet Jacob > Verses > (89) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/129139285 |
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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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