<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452106" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fyntameryn As Fine as Can Be</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Words conjuring images <br>more beautiful than reality<br>the horsethief passionately<br>whispering: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dancer, all aglow with ribbons <br>and bows – a ladies’ horse, <br>high-stepping, as fine as <br>can be </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Teasing with a tongue-twister, <br>a black dappled horse and <br>grey also – magical images <br>of horses</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fiery copper stallion, a dark <br>chestnut and bright bay horse, <br>a brown roan, ‘boknekperd’ and <br>grey sorrel </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The horsethief taming a horse <br>with strange, bewitching terms, <br>slippery guttler, His Haughty<br>Highness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enraptured I read about yellow <br>finches in shiny mantles and the <br>reedy note of the ‘klapklappie’, <br>lady’s heart grass </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Green foliage and lacy twigs, as <br>fine as can be! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Based on quotes from “The Horsethief”<br>HJ Vermaas, Tafelberg Publishing,1974, pp.1-41) </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Fyntameryn (Original) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Woorde wat beelde optower <br>mooier as enige werklikheid, <br>die perdedief se hartstogtelike <br>fluistering: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Danster, my glanster; opgeskik, <br>strikversier - mooimeisieperd, <br>fyntrapper, so fyntameryn <br>as kan kom </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Terg my tong met ‘n ritrympie, <br>‘n swartblesperd met flougrys <br>pens - magiese perdebeelde <br>opgetower</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vurige kopervos reun en ‘n <br>blinkvosperd, sweetvosbles, <br>bruinskimmel, boknekperd, <br>asblou hings </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Die perdedief wat ‘n perd tem <br>met ongekende woordekuns, <br>gulsbek, gliplyf, hooghart, <br>graniethart</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In soete verrukking lees ek van <br>geelpiete in manteljasse en ‘n <br>klapklappie se dun fluitnootjie, <br>klokkiesgras, blarelower </div><div style="margin:10px 0">En ‘n fyngetakte bos; so <br>fyntameryn - as kan <br>kom! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(Aanhalings uit “Die Perdedief” HJ Vermaas, <br>Tafelberg Uitgewers, 1974, pp.1 – 41)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</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=452106" data-title="Fyntameryn As Fine as Can Be de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Words conjuring images more beautiful than reality the horsethief passionately whispering: Dancer, all aglow with ribbons and bows – a ladies’ horse, high-stepping, as fine as can be Teasing with a tongue-twister, a black dappled hors..."></div> </div> </div>

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