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Title: Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day
1905
Author: Robert Hichens
Release Date: November 8, 2007 [EBook #23411]
Last Updated: December 17, 2012
Language: English
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SMAÏN;
and SAFTI'S SUMMER DAY.
By Robert Hichens
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Copyright, 1905
Contents
SMAÏN
"When the African is in love he plays upon the pipe."
Sahara Saying.
Far away in the desert I heard the sound of a flute, pure sound in the pure air, delicate, sometimes almost comic with the comicality of a child who bends women to kisses and to nonsense-words. We had passed through the sandstorm, Safti and I, over the wastes of saltpetre, and come into a land of palm gardens where there was almost breathless calm. The feet of the camels paddled over the soft brown earth of the narrow alleys between the brown earth walls, and we looked down to right and left into the shady enclosed spaces, seamed with water rills, dotted with little pools of pale yellow water, and saw always giant palms, with wrinkled trunks and tufted, deep green foliage, brooding in their squadrons over the dimness they had made. The activity of man might be discerned here in the regularity of the artificial rills, the ordered placing of the trees, each of which, too, stood on its oval hump. But no man was seen; no flat-roofed huts appeared;
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