Wild Adventures in Wild Places

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Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Company, 1881 - Adventure stories - 176 pages
 

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Page 10 - Hunting the hart in forests green, With bended bow and bloodhound free, For that's the life is meet for me. I hate to learn the ebb of time, From yon dull steeple's drowsy chime, Or mark it as the sunbeams crawl, Inch after inch, along the wall. The lark was wont my matins ring...
Page 29 - The antlered monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dewdrops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high, Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky ; A moment gazed adown the dale, A moment snuffed the tainted gale, A moment listened to the cry, That thickened as the chase drew nigh ; Then, as the headmost foes appeared, With one brave bound the copse he cleared, And stretching forward free and far, Sought the wild heaths...

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