| Henry Astbury Leveson - Africa - 1874 - 360 pages
...he does wisest — who takes most of both," CHAPTER XVIII. THE N'GOBAI AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY. ' ' Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent...— . Away, away from the dwellings of men, By the antelope's haunt, and the buffalo's glen ; By valleys remote where the ourebi plays, Where the gnoo,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...at the evening fall ; And the fiend -like laugh of hyenas grim, Fearfully startles the twilight dim. With post-boy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry : ' Stop thief ! stop thie in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered Koranna or Bechuan... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...sun, — With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the desert afar from man. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side ! When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...on the 5th of December 1834. The following piece was much admired by Coleridge : Afar in the Desert. ost ardently desired is for ever frustrated. I have spent a life of the base : When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I turn to the past ; And the... | |
| 1876 - 918 pages
...solitudes. Here is a picture of this desert as he painted it. " Afar in the desert I love to ride, AVitb the silent bush-boy alone by my side. Away, away, from the dwellings of men, liy the wild dccrs* haunt, and the buffalos' glen ; Ну valleys remote, where the Oribi plays, 'Where... | |
| English poetry - 1876 - 618 pages
...good nets undone — Aweary of all that is nnder the sun; With that sadness of heart whieh no stranger Afar in the Desert I love to ride. With the silent bush-boy alono by my side; When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its seenes of oppression, eorruption,... | |
| John Croumbie Brown - Water-supply - 1877 - 676 pages
...sensation to those so beautifully depleted by Pringle, the South African poet, in his lines commencing— ' Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side;' the only difference being that my ' silent bush-boy,' instead of being an almond-eyed, flat-nosed,... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...the sun — With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the desert afar from man. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side. When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife... | |
| William Bolitho Ryall - 1883 - 474 pages
...some lines of the immortal Pringle Afar in the desert I love to ride. By the wild deer's haunt and the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote where the oribi plays ; Where the gnu, the gazelle, and the harte beest graze. And the gemsbok and eland uuhnnted recline, By the skirts of grey forests o'ergrown... | |
| Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1881
...sun, — With the sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the Desert, afar from man ! Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife... | |
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