OXUS.
But the majestic river float?:! on, Out of the mist and hum of that low land. Into the frosty starlight, and there moved E'ajoicinfr, through the hushed Chorasmian Will's, Under the solitary moon; —he flowed P.isrht for the polar star, past Orgunje. Brimming-, and bright, and iarcre; then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam bis streams. And split his currents; that for many a. league The shorn and parcelled Orus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles— Oxus. forfeiting the bright speed he had In his hiph mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderer—till at lost, The longed-for dash of waves i? heard, and wide His luminous home of wnt-er3 opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the uewbathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea, —llatthev- Arnold.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12081, 9 August 1917, Page 7
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137OXUS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12081, 9 August 1917, Page 7
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