 Caffre wends home through the lone karroo; When the boshbok in the thicket sleeps, and by the stream the gnu ; Then bend your gaze across the waste — what see ye ? The giraffe, Majestic, stalks towards the lagoon, the turbid lymph to quaff; With outstretched...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 1931845Full view - About this book
 | John George Cochrane - 1845 - 562 pages
...see ye ? The giraffe Majestic stalks towards the lagoon, the turbid lymph to quaff; With outstreched neck and tongue adust, he kneels him down to cool...lion sits astride Upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride ? Had ever king a steed so rare, caparisons of state To match the dappled skin whereon... | |
 | William Cox Bennett - 1870 - 202 pages
...speckled o'er With kraal fires; when the Caffre wends home through the lone karroo ; When the boskbok in the thicket sleeps, and by the stream the gnu ;...lion sits astride Upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride? Had ever king a steed so rare caparisons of state To match the dappled skin whereon... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...the wild herds drink, close couches the grim chief ; The trembling sycamore above whispers withevery ever king so ride» Had ever king a steed so rare, caparisons of state To match the dappled skin whereon... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...towards the lagoon, the turbid lymph to quaff ; With outstretched neck and tongue adust, he kneels bim iam Cullen Гроп his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride? Had ever king a steed so rare, caparisons... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...thicket sleeps, and by the stream the gnu ; . Then bend your gaze across the waste, — what eee ye Î WIS. ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE. [Written in the spring...soon after.) MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness mstling sound, a roar, a bound, — the lion sits astride Upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king... | |
 | 1875 - 252 pages
...royally this night he means to ride. By the sedgy brink, where the wild herds drink, close couches the grim chief; The trembling sycamore above whispers...lion sits astride Upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride ? Had ever king such steed ? so rare caparisons of state To match the dappled skin... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...With kraal fires; when the Caffre wends home through the lone karroo ; When the boshbok in the thrcket sleeps, and by the stream the gnu ; Then bend your...lion sits astride Upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride ? Had ever king a steed so rare, caparisons of state To match the dappled skin whereon... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 pages
...through the lone karroo ; When the boshbok in the thicket sleeps, and by the stream the gnu ; Then l>end your gaze across the waste, • — what see ye ?...sound, a roar, a bound, — the lion sits astride ITpon his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride ? Had ever king a steed so rare, caparisons of... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...whispers with every leaf. At evening, on the Table Mount, when ye can see no more The changeful plaj ot signals gay ; when the gloom is speckled o'er With...draught from the foul and brackish pool. A rustling sonnd — a roar— a bound — the lion sits astride upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king... | |
 | 1880 - 404 pages
...changeful play of signals gay ; when the gloom is speckled o'er With kraal fires ; when the Caff re wends home through the lone karroo ; When the boshbok...lion sits astride Upon his giant courser's back. Did ever king so ride ? Had ever king such steed ? so rare caparisons of state To match the dappled skin... | |
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