Lines 11-14 Walcott shifts gears in these lines and returns to images of Africa's wildlife, in a reminder that the ibises (long-billed wading birds) and other beasts ruled this land long before African or European civilization existed. ... Such killing for sustenance is set against the senseless and random death that native Africans and European settlers perpetrate upon each other. ...

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