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Trunk Road

(An Impression of Assam)

KENNETH V. DODGSON, M.D.

Mist of morn at break of day: rati pua
 — hovering over silent plains
 — distant objects indistinct
 — blurred in hazy grayness.

Through the mist the oxen plodding, cultivator walking
 — bearing to the distant paddy
 — plow and harrow for the breaking
 — fallow fields awaiting planting.

Road yet wet with morning dew, quietness pervading
 — broken by the bather bathing
 — by the thumping, slushing, washing
 — by the sound of bird awaking.

  Blazing sun high overhead : abeli
 — dark hard surface drying, steam rising
 — deep green shades contrasting
 — with the blueness of the heavens,
 —with the whiteness of the clouds.

 The road now full of life and sounds
 — naked children laughing, shouting
 — schoolboys walking with their fellows
 — cattle grazing, young ones suckling.

 Ox carts passing, creaking, groaning
 —she goats bleeting, wee ones prancing
 —chickens pecking, scratching, clucking
 —goose and gander, honking, tooting.