Good, but the first few lines sounds a refrain of Walt Whitman's poem entitled "On the Beach at Night." Ngugi Wa' Thiongo profaced his novel with a line from Whitman's poem.
This is the fourth stanza of Wi=hitman's poem:
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Good, but the first few lines sounds a refrain of Walt Whitman's poem entitled "On the Beach at Night." Ngugi Wa' Thiongo profaced his novel with a line from Whitman's poem.
This is the fourth stanza of Wi=hitman's poem:
Weep not, child,
Weep not, my darling,
With these kisses let me remove your tears,
The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious;
They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge,
They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
Good, but the first few lines sounds a refrain of Walt Whitman's poem entitled "On the Beach at Night." Ngugi Wa' Thiongo profaced his novel with a line from Whitman's poem.
This is the fourth stanza of Wi=hitman's poem:
...
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