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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By HamlinGarland

1393 The Gift of Water

“IS water nigh?”

The plainsmen cry,

As they meet and pass in the desert grass.

With finger tip

Across the lip

I ask the sombre Navajo.

The brown man smiles and answers “Sho!”

With fingers high, he signs the miles

To the desert spring,

And so we pass in the dry dead grass,

Brothers in bond of the water’s ring.