StoryTitle("caps", "On the Desert")?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All around,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the bound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the vast horizon's round, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All sand, sand, sand—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All burning, glaring sand—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On my camel's hump I ride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he sways from side to side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With an awkward step of pride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And his scraggy head uplifted, and his eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So long and bland.", "") ?>
PagePoem(6, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Naught is near,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the blear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the simmering atmosphere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the shadow on the sand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The shadow of the camel on the sand;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All alone as I ride", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er the desert's ocean wide,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is ever at my side;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It haunts me, it pursues me, if I flee or if I stand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a sound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All around", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Save the paddled heat and bound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the camel on the sand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the feet of the camel on the sand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a bird is in the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though the sun, with burning stare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is prying everywhere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the yellow thirsty desert, so", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Desolately grand.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Wetmore Story.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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