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The pictures in the sand.
But on a stone there sits a man,
A brush is in his hand.
Line 9: “The winds blow by and sweeps away”
Line 10: “The pictures in the sand.”
Line 11: “But on a stone there sits a man,”
Line 12: “A brush is in his hand.”
Summary of Stanza 3
“The winds blow by and sweeps away”
(The wind moves across the place and begins erasing Gopi’s drawings.)
“The pictures in the sand.”
(The pictures disappear because the sand cannot hold them permanently.)
“But on a stone there sits a man,”
(A mysterious man suddenly appears, sitting on a stone.)
“A brush is in his hand.”
(Unlike Gopi’s twig, the man carries a real brush.)
Overall meaning: The wind erases Gopi’s temporary art, and the mysterious man with a real brush enters the poem.
