Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NILE SHADOWS, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY


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NILE SHADOWS, by                    
First Line: Soft shadows slipping from the dark'ning sand
Last Line: Or cry of lonely beast could now be heard.
Subject(s): Hearts; Shadows


Soft shadows slipping from the dark'ning sand
To touch the water with a mystic hue;
Two lovers in a boat ... close ... hand in hand ...
While swarthy boatmen poled the small craft through.
Great crocodiles and snakes and eels now swarmed
The surface of the Nile as on it flowed,
While flickering rays of sunshine that had warmed
The earth now faded from the trail and road.

The haunting cry of leopard to his mate
Made shrill the air, uncanny, wierd 'and loud,
Almost it seemed a warning of dire fate.
Soon stars appeared without a trace of cloud.
Then silence thickly fell. No sound of bird
Or cry of lonely beast could now be heard.





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