<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396284" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mamba: (The Bright Eyed) An Aboriginal Reminiscence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Canto I. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXVIII. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day had fled, the moon arose, <br>Night straight began with evening's close-- <br>A night whose calm and silvery sheen <br>Befitted well the wild yapeen.1 <br>Within the circle of the camp <br>Blazed the clear fire, while measured tramp <br>Of dancing warriors shook the ground, <br>To song and time-sticks' throbbing sound. <br>There twice two hundred feet advanced, <br>There twice a hundred malkas2 glanced <br>Bright in the moon, that silvered o'er <br>The arms that all those malkas bore. <br>Wild the device, and strange the sign <br>That stared in many a snowy line <br>From beaming face and heaving breast, <br>And limbs that seldom paused to rest; <br>Whilst all the rib-like lines laid on, <br>Made each man seem a skeleton. <br>Nodded the feathers from the red <br>And netted band that bound each head, <br>And hoarsely rustling leaves of trees <br>Shook round dark ankles in the breeze. <br>The singers with their time-sticks rang <br>The cadence of the song they sang; <br>And every face and limb below, <br>And tree above them, caught the glow <br>That spread from camp-fire's rising blaze, <br>Lighting the yapeen's wond'rous maze <br>Of feet and ankles in the dance <br>With fitful gleam or twinkling glance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXIX </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Conspicuous 'mid the dancing crowd, <br>Whose ranks alternate swayed and bowed, <br>Shone Mamba, tricked with wild design, <br>And symbol traced in waving line. <br>No limbs more active wore the green <br>At yon great Ghim-boboke3 yapeen; <br>And no two arms more graceful there <br>In circling motion cleft the air <br>Than his--and his the eagle-eye <br>Inspiring all the minstrelsy. <br>The young and old in groups around <br>Drank in the sight, the joy, the sound; <br>And Mamba's form throughout the dance <br>Attraced every wondering glance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Gordon+McCrae">George Gordon McCrae</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396284" data-title="Mamba: (The Bright Eyed) An Aboriginal Reminiscence de George Gordon McCrae" data-description="Canto I. XXVIII. The day had fled, the moon arose, Night straight began with evening's close-- A night whose calm and silvery sheen Befitted well the wild yapeen.1 Within the circle of the camp Blazed the clear fire, while measured tramp ..."></div> </div> </div>

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