I paced alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser.
The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land,
whose harvest had been reaped,lay silent.
Suddenly a boy shrill voice rose into the sky.
He traversed the dark unseen,leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evering.
His village home lay there at the end of the weste land,beyond the sugar-cane field,
hidden among the shadows of the banana and the slender areca palm,
the cocoa-nut and the dark green jack-fruit trees.
I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight,
and saw sread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms countless homes furnished with
cradles and beds, mother hearts and evening lamps, and young lives glad with a gladness that
knows nothing of its value for the world.