Excerpt: ...For rest. His neck is galled beneath the yoke: His patient eyes are very dim: Life is a dismal sort of joke To him. 56 Yet one there is, to whom the ox Is kin; who knows, as habitat, The cold, unsympathetic box, Or mat; Who urges on, with wearied arms, The punkah's rhythmic, laboured sweep, Nor dares to contemplate the charms Of sleep. Now 'mid a host of lesser things That pasture through the heaving nights, The sharp mosquito flaps his wings, And bites; With other Anthropophagi, Such as that microscopic brand ...
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Excerpt: ...For rest. His neck is galled beneath the yoke: His patient eyes are very dim: Life is a dismal sort of joke To him. 56 Yet one there is, to whom the ox Is kin; who knows, as habitat, The cold, unsympathetic box, Or mat; Who urges on, with wearied arms, The punkah's rhythmic, laboured sweep, Nor dares to contemplate the charms Of sleep. Now 'mid a host of lesser things That pasture through the heaving nights, The sharp mosquito flaps his wings, And bites; With other Anthropophagi, Such as that microscopic brand The common Sand-fly (or the fly Of sand), Who, with a hideous lust uncurbed By clappings of the frequent palm, Devours one's ankles, undisturbed, And calm. 57 The scorpion nips one unaware: The lizard flops upon the head: And cobras, uninvited, share One's bed. Oh, if I only had the luck To feel the grand Olympic fire That thrilled the Greater when they struck The lyre! When Homer wrote of this and that: When Dante sang like one possessed: When Milton groaned and laboured at His Best! Had I the swelling rise and fall, Whereof the Bo'sun's quivering moan Derives a breezy fragrance all Its own: Oh, I would pour such passion out
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