<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538498" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Music of the Chase</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't know any tune from any other, <br>I couldn't sing a song if I were paid,<br>I couldn't for the ransom of a brother, <br>Hum a single thing that anybody played. <br>But I know one melody<br>That can stir the heart of me- <br>It's the mad and merry challenge of the horn ! <br>With the chime of hounds that follow, <br>And the cheer and rate and holloa <br>That can shake the very dewdrops from the thorn!<br>I couldn't make a fortune with a fiddle, <br>I scarce can sing a psalm-tune in a pew, <br>I couldn't lead a partner 'down the middle' <br>With a more than sporting chance of getting through.<br>I couldn't for my life <br>Play a cornet or a fife <br>And the flute was never any friend of mine; <br>But I do appreciate <br>When a yokel on a gate <br>Gives a holloa that can hold us to the line! <br>For everything is music when you hunt, <br>From the guttural ' Gar'r' on there!' of the Whip <br>To the' Tally-ho !' of some one up in front <br>Or the holloa of a herdsman in the dip; <br>The crash of post and rail <br>In a sort of running scale, <br>The thunder as the gallopers go by, <br>The ringing' For'ard on ! ' <br>That is swallowed up anon <br>In the chorus of the pack against the sky !<br>So let others swear by Melba if they will, <br>By Crossley, Tetrazzini, and the rest; <br>I 'll be happy if I hear upon the hill <br>The voices of the ladies I love best- <br>The voices of a pack <br>Running hot upon his track, <br>And the cheer of one that saw the way he went! <br>When they hustle him along <br>Is there any grander song <br>Than the song of sixteen couple on a scent?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Henry+Ogilvie">William Henry Ogilvie</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=538498" data-title="The Music of the Chase de William Henry Ogilvie" data-description="I don't know any tune from any other, I couldn't sing a song if I were paid, I couldn't for the ransom of a brother, Hum a single thing that anybody played. But I know one melody That can stir the heart of me- It's the mad and merry challenge ..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black