What mood and atmosphere is created by the last line of the fifth stanza?
What do you think the dash at the beginning of the sixth stanza represents?
Where you lay waiting, listening to the waves –
My hot hands touched your white despondent shoulders
– And then ten thousand miles of daylight grew
Between us, and I heard the wild daws crake
In India’s starving throat; whereat I knew
That Time upon the heart can break
But love survives the venom of the snake.