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Excerpt from Akra the Slave
Behind them, terror's lifted lash Before them, ever crouching, The horror of the unknown night While, as they moved before us, The moonlight shivered off their shrinking shoulders And naked, glancing limbs, In shimmering, strange beauty. And closely on their heels, I, with my brothers, foremost in the file, Marched, tethered 'twixt the plodding beasts, Whose stolid riders sat, Each with his javelin on the pummel couched, In watchful silence, with dark eyes alert. And once, nigh driven crazy By the tugging of the thongs, I sprang into the air, As down a rocky steep we scrambled; And strove to burst the galling bonds, Or hurl my guards on one another; But, all too sure of foot, the beasts, And too securely girths and cords Held me, and I stumbled. Instantly a thong Struck my wincing shoulders, Blow on thudding blow. I hit my lips and strode on silently; Nor fought again for freedom. So on we journeyed through the night, And down familiar mountain-tracks, Through deep, dark forest, Ever down and down Fording the streams, whose moon-bright waters ?ow ed, In eddies of delicious, aching cool.
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