<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408601" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dan Wasn’t Thrown from His Horse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THEY SAY he was thrown and run over,<br>But that is sheer nonsense, of course:<br>I taught him to ride when a kiddy,<br>And Dan wasn’t thrown from his horse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The horse that Dan rode was a devil—<br>The kind of a brute I despise,<br>With nasty white eyelashes fringing<br>A pair of red, sinister eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a queerly-shaped spot on his forehead,<br>Where I put a conical ball<br>The day that he murdered Dan Denver,<br>The pluckiest rider of all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">’Twas after the races were over<br>And Duggan (a Talbragar man)<br>And two of the Denvers, and Barney<br>Were trying a gallop with Dan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dan’s horse on a sudden got vicious,<br>And reared up an’ plunged in the race,<br>Then threw back his head, hitting Dan like<br>A sledge-hammer, full in the face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dan stopped and got down, stood a moment,<br>Then fell to the ground like a stone,<br>And died about ten minutes after;<br>But they’re liars who say he was thrown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><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=408601" data-title="Dan Wasn’t Thrown from His Horse de Henry Lawson" data-description="THEY SAY he was thrown and run over, But that is sheer nonsense, of course: I taught him to ride when a kiddy, And Dan wasn’t thrown from his horse. The horse that Dan rode was a devil— The kind of a brute I despise, With nasty white eyelashe..."></div> </div> </div>

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