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Southward out of Madras you still run through the new India, the old / India of the nursery. Now it is vivid with long grass, now tufted / with cotton, then dark-green with stooping palm-heads or black with / firs; anon brown with fallow, blue with lakes and lagoons, black with / cloud-shadowing pools starred with white water-lilies. Presently red / hills break out of the woods, then sink again to sweeping pastures / dotted only with water-hoists and naked herdsmen.