The Gift Of Water

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Title:     The Gift Of Water
Author: Hamlin Garland [More Titles by Garland]

"Is water nigh?"
The plainsmen cry,
As they meet and pass in the desert grass.
With finger tip
Across the lip
I ask the sombre Navajo.
The brown man smiles and answers "Sho!"[1]
With fingers high, he signs the miles
To the desert spring,
And so we pass in the dry dead grass,
Brothers in bond of the water's ring.

 

[Footnote 1: Listen. Your attention.]

[The end]
Hamlin Garland's poem: The Gift Of Water

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