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 Namib Desert

Twelve hundred miles of desert sand

Along Africa's southern coast,

Eons meeting water and land.

Inland erosion causing most

Of rock turned sand and pushed to go

Toward the Atlantic Ocean way

By wind and rivers in a flow,

Forming works of art on display

Of massive dunes of reddish hue,

Because of iron oxide within

Striking against the ocean blue,

Results of ancient origin.

The Namib desert, time and place

Along the Atlantic does grace.