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    The poem describes the author's experiences as a herdsman guarding cattle on his native hill in South Africa. He would carry his slingshot, or "sling", as a talisman that represented his future and resilience against insults. In the morning, zebras would emerge from the dark woods, drawing the dawn across the plains with their golden manes lit by the sunlight. As the zebras passed through the grass, their flickering shadows made the landscape come alive like the strings of a lyre. They called out to distant fillies with dove-like voices while the stallion protectively circled the herds before joining his mate among the trampled lilies.

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    The poem describes the author's experiences as a herdsman guarding cattle on his native hill in South Africa. He would carry his slingshot, or "sling", as a talisman that represented his future and resilience against insults. In the morning, zebras would emerge from the dark woods, drawing the dawn across the plains with their golden manes lit by the sunlight. As the zebras passed through the grass, their flickering shadows made the landscape come alive like the strings of a lyre. They called out to distant fillies with dove-like voices while the stallion protectively circled the herds before joining his mate among the trampled lilies.

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    The Sling (A Poem From South Africa) Roy Campbell

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    The poem describes the author's experiences as a herdsman guarding cattle on his native hill in South Africa. He would carry his slingshot, or "sling", as a talisman that represented his future and resilience against insults. In the morning, zebras would emerge from the dark woods, drawing the dawn across the plains with their golden manes lit by the sunlight. As the zebras passed through the grass, their flickering shadows made the landscape come alive like the strings of a lyre. They called out to distant fillies with dove-like voices while the stallion protectively circled the herds before joining his mate among the trampled lilies.

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    The Sling

    (a poem from South Africa)

    Roy Campbell

    Guarding the cattle on my native hill

    This was my talisman. Its charm was known

    High in the blue and aquiline ozone,

    And by my tireless armourer, the rill,

    Smoothing his pellets to my hand or eye:

    And how its meteors sang into the sky

    The eagles of the Berg remember still.

    I wore this herdsman’s bracelet all day long:

    To me it meant “To-morrow” and “Perhaps’,

    The insults of Goliath, his collapse…

    THE ZEBRAS

    Roy Campbell

    From the dark woods that breathe of fallen showers,

    Hardnessed with level rays in golden reins,

    The zebras draw the dawn across the plains

    Wading knee-keep among the scarlet flowers.

    The sunlight, zithering their flanks with fire,

    Flashes between the shadows as they pass

    Barred with electric tremors through the grass

    Like wind along the gold strings of lyre.

    Into the flushed air snorting rosy plumes


    The smoulder round their feet in drifting fumes,

    With dove-like voices call the distant fillies,

    While round the herds the stallion wheels his flight,

    Engine of beauty volted with delight,

    To roll his mare among the trampled lilies.

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