, POEM
Again the veld revives
Imbued with lyric rains,
And sap re-sweetening dry stalks
Perfumes the quickening plains;
Small roots explode in strings of stars,
Each bulb gives up its dream,
Honey drips from orchid throats, Jewels
each raceme;
The desert sighs at dawn- As
in another hemisphere
The temple lotus breaks her buds On
the attentive air-
A frou-frou of new flowers,
Puff of unrufling petals,
While rods of sunlight strike pure streams From
rocks beveined with metals;
Far in the gaunt karroo The
winter earth denudes
Again the veld revives
Imbued with lyric rains,
And sap re-sweetening dry stalks
Perfumes the quickening plains;
Small roots explode in strings of stars,
Each bulb gives up its dream,
Honey drips from orchid throats, Jewels
each raceme;
The desert sighs at dawn- As
in another hemisphere
The temple lotus breaks her buds On
the attentive air-
A frou-frou of new flowers,
Puff of unrufling petals,
While rods of sunlight strike pure streams From
rocks beveined with metals;
Far in the gaunt karroo The
winter earth denudes
