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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ARAB., on, my brown Arab, away, away Thou hast trotted o'er many a mile to-day, And I trow right meagre hath been thy fare Since they roused thee at dawn from thy straw piled lair, To tread with those echoless unshod feet Yon weltering flats in the noontide heat, Where no palm-tree proffers a kindly shade And the eye never rests on a cool grass blade; And lank is thy flank, and thy frequent cough, Oh it goes to my heart?but away, friend, off And yet, ah what sculptor who saw thee stand, As thou standest now, on thy Native Strand, With the wild wind ruffling thine uncombed hair, And thy nostril upturned to the od'rous air, Would not woo thee to pause, till his skill might trace At leisure the lines of that eager face; The collarless neck and the coal-black paws And the bit grasped tight in the massive jaws; The delicate curve of the legs, that seem Too slight for their burden?and, O, the gleam Of that eye, so sombre and yet so gay Still away, my lithe Arab, once more away Nay, tempt me not, Arab, again to stay; Since I crave neither Echo nor Fun to-day. For thy hand is not Echoless?there they are, Fun, Glowworm, and Echo, and Evening Star, And thou hintest withal that thou fain would'st shine, As I read them, these bulgy old boots of mine. But I shrink from thee, Arab Thou eat'st eel-pie, Thou evermore hast at least one black eye; There is brass on thy brow, and thy swarthy hues Are due not to nature but handling shoes; And the bit in thy mouth, .1 regret to see, Is a bit of tobacco-pipe?Flee, child, flee LINES ON HEARING THE ORGAN. /RINDER, who serenely grindest At my door the Hundredth Psalm, Till thou ultimately findest Pence in thine unwashen palm: Grinder, jocund-hearted Grinder, Near whom Barbary's nimble son, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217723671 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217723675 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $13.25 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 128 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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