<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I ride, as I ride,<br>With a full heart for my guide,<br>So its tide rocks my side,<br>As I ride, as I ride,<br>That, as I were double-eyed,<br>He, in whom our Tribes confide,<br>Is descried, ways untried<br>As I ride, as I ride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I ride, as I ride<br>To our Chief and his Allied,<br>Who dares chide my heart's pride<br>As I ride, as I ride?<br>Or are witnesses denied—<br>Through the desert waste and wide<br>Do I glide unespied<br>As I ride, as I ride?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I ride, as I ride,<br>When an inner voice has cried,<br>The sands slide, nor abide<br>(As I ride, as I ride)<br>O'er each visioned homicide<br>That came vaunting (has he lied?)<br>To reside—where he died,<br>As I ride, as I ride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I ride, as I ride,<br>Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied,<br>Yet his hide, streaked and pied,<br>As I ride, as I ride,<br>Shows where sweat has sprung and dried,<br>—Zebra-footed, ostrich-thighed—<br>How has vied stride with stride<br>As I ride, as I ride!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I ride, as I ride,<br>Could I loose what Fate has tied,<br>Ere I pried, she should hide<br>(As I ride, as I ride)<br>All that's meant me—satisfied<br>When the Prophet and the Bride<br>Stop veins I'd have subside<br>As I ride, as I ride!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Browning">Robert Browning</a> from <i>Cavalier Tunes</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116135" data-title="Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr de Robert Browning" data-description="I/As I ride, as I ride,/With a full heart for my guide,/So its tide rocks my side,/As I ride, as I ride,/That, as I were double-eyed,/He, in whom our Tribes confide,/Is descried, ways untried/As I ride, as I ride./ II./As I ride, as I ride/To our ..."></div> </div> </div>

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