TYPHON SLEEPS 77 



Night once more — with the recurrent miracle 

 of the dew-fall and the stars. Typhon slept. 

 Of what was he dreaming? Of the far-off 

 day when the overflowing measure of his in- 

 famy caused the decree of his banishment to 

 be pronounced, — of the lands he ravaged and 

 blighted on his southward course, — of his 

 enemy, the rain-god, who smote him with the 

 river-sword and thus crippled him for ever? 



But. man also must sleep — and on the mor- 

 row I had to journey to the Kanya-veld. 



