 His first and last career is done! On came the troop - they saw him stoop, They saw me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong: They stop, they start, they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach, retire, wheel round and...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4311819Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...saw me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop, they start, they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...shaggy hide ; They snort, they foam, neigh, swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from a human eye. They left me there to my despair,... | |
 | Edward William Lewis Davies - 1875 - 354 pages
...saw me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop—they start.—they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seemed the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide ; They... | |
 | Edward William L. Davies - 1875 - 380 pages
...strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop — .they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seemed the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide ; .... | |
 | William Russell - 1875 - 312 pages
...that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on : — They stop, — they start — they snufFthe air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach, retire,...round and round, Then plunging back with sudden bound, — They snort, — they foam — neigh — swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct,... | |
 | Edward William Lewis Davies - 1875 - 358 pages
...me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop— they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...retire, wheel round and round. Then plunging back with sudden•bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seemed the patriarch of his breed, Without a... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop, — they start, — they snulf the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seemed the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide ; They... | |
 | English reader - 1875 - 202 pages
...Lord Byron has described such a scene in the following lines : — " They stop, they start, they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...sudden bound, — Headed by one black, mighty steed, \Vho seems the patriarch of the breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop, — they start, — they snulf the »ir, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach, retire,...sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seemed the patriarch of his breed. Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide ; They... | |
 | 1878 - 618 pages
...me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong: They stop — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seemed the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide; They... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...me strangely bound along His back with many a bloody thong : They stop — they start — they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach,...shaggy hide : They snort, they foam, neigh, swerve aside. And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from a human eye. They left me there to my despair,... | |
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