Accomplishes its descriptive task.
Shaded fi'om the moon light even,
A young cardamom creeper sticks
To its post while an elephant
R.eaches for an ebony leaf,
Snorts , scratches his moist temple
On the spine of an areca palm,
Then makes his bower for the night.
A panther pugl11arks a new seed bed
Until the morning, and a wind comes
Down through a bamboo thicket
On the ridge, running a gamut
There of chest notes for elephants
And clear soprano octaves that carry
Over the dam, past the settlemellt,
Out of these blue hills.
