A gallery of famous English and American poets . for prey the abode of huinari-kind Oh for the plovers pleasant cry, To tell of water near!Oh for the camel-drivers song!For now the water-skin grows light,Though of the draught, more eagerly desired,Imperious prudence took with sparing from the third nights broken in his dreams he heardThe sound of rushing winds,Started the anxious yoiitli, and looked abroadIn vain! for still the deadly calm day passed on ;The water-skin was drained!But then one hope arrived,For there was motion in the air !The sound of the wi
A gallery of famous English and American poets . for prey the abode of huinari-kind Oh for the plovers pleasant cry, To tell of water near!Oh for the camel-drivers song!For now the water-skin grows light,Though of the draught, more eagerly desired,Imperious prudence took with sparing from the third nights broken in his dreams he heardThe sound of rushing winds,Started the anxious yoiitli, and looked abroadIn vain! for still the deadly calm day passed on ;The water-skin was drained!But then one hope arrived,For there was motion in the air !The sound of the wind arose scattered the thick lo ! at length the lovely face of Heaven ! Alas ! a wretched sceneWas opened on their looked around; no wells were near, No tent, no human aid !Flat on the camel lay the water-skin,And their dumb servant, difficultly hot sands and undfer the hot on with patient pain. But oh, the joy! the blessed sight;When in that burning waste the travellers THE DESERT-TIIIKST. 179. Saw a green meadow, fair with flowers besprent,Azure and yellow, like the beautiful fieldsOf Entrland, when amid the p-rowing; crrassThe blue-bell bends, the golden king-cup the sweet cowslip scents the genial air,In the merry month of May !Oh, joy ! the travellersGaze on each other with hope-brighteued eyes. For sure throufrh that green meadow flowsThe living stream ! And lo ! their famished beast Sees the restoring sight!Hope gives his feeble limbs a sudden strength;He hurries on !—
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