EARTH-OCEAN , barren and boundless, ebbing away to the skyline,
Brooding stone-crested koppies, billows of scrub and of sand,
What can you yield of delight to those who seek and who harken—
Seek for elusive Beauty, crave for the spell of her voice?
Patient and lonely and sad, in silent places they wander
Seeking the starry vision that beckons, smiles, and is gone.
Unto such seekers, O plains, you melt into seas opalescent,
Jewelled with glimmering isles chafed by no petulant surge,
Over your shimmering seas and beyond your sapphire islands,
Skies trail a turquoise robe hemmed with luminous pearl!