<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=563404" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Matlapanen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Makoros glide swift<br>On the Thamalakane, <br>The fishing boys<br>Cast lines again, <br>Where the bream lie deep<br>In the peat brown pool, <br>By the old bridge<br>At Matlapanen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under gum poles span<br>Smooth water slides free, <br>And strong circling eddies snatch<br>The gnarled trunk<br>Of a long dead tree, <br>Past stooped women<br>Gathering thatch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river mist coils <br>In the searing dawn, <br>Writhing, ethereal fingers <br>Dew diamond bright, <br>The light strikes strong <br>From arched islands, <br>Black stones and timbers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There bulks the wild fig<br>Thick rooted and high, <br>Where the night rustling<br>Fruit bat feeds, <br>Where the hippo’s bark<br>Echoes to the darkling sky, <br>While a thousand moons<br>Dance in the reeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through Delta to Dau, <br>Throbs river pulse beat, <br>Flooding bank and<br>Wild forest root, <br>Languorous cattle now<br>Graze belly deep, <br>Where dust once<br>Scuffed underfoot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">East down Boteti<br>By silent Matopi, <br>South on Nghabe<br>Past Toteng, <br>The dream that returns<br>Is the Thamalakane, <br>By the old bridge<br>At Matlepanen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Stanley+Goodlad+Hall">Stanley Goodlad Hall</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=563404" data-title="Matlapanen de Stanley Goodlad Hall" data-description="Makoros glide swift On the Thamalakane, The fishing boys Cast lines again, Where the bream lie deep In the peat brown pool, By the old bridge At Matlapanen. Under gum poles span Smooth water slides free, And strong circling eddies snatch The ..."></div> </div> </div>

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