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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538500" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Pearl of them All</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gaily in front of the stockwhip<br>The horses come galloping home,<br>Leaping and bucking and playing<br>With sides all a lather of foam;<br>But painfully, slowly behind them,<br>With head to the crack of the fall,<br>And trying so gamely to follow<br>Comes limping the pearl of them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is stumbling and stiff in the shoulder,<br>And splints from the hoof to the knee,<br>But never a horse on the station<br>Has half such a spirit as he;<br>Give these all the boast of their breeding<br>These pets of the paddock and stall,<br>But ten years ago not their proudest<br>Could live with the pearl of them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No journey has ever yet beat him,<br>No day was too heavy or hard,<br>He was king of the camp and the muster<br>And pride of the wings of the yard;<br>But Time is relentless to follow;<br>The best of us bow to his thrall;<br>And death, with his scythe on his shoulder,<br>Is dogging the pearl of them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watch him go whinnying past me,<br>And memories come with a whirl<br>Of reckless, wild rides with a comrade<br>And laughing, gay rides with a girl —<br>How she decked him with lilies and love-knots<br>And plaited his mane at my side,<br>And once in the grief of a parting<br>She threw her arms round him and cried.<br>And I promised — I gave her my promise<br>The night that we parted in tears,<br>To keep and be kind to the old horse<br>Till Time made a burden of years;<br>And then for his sake and one woman’s…<br>So, fetch me my gun from the wall!<br>I have only this kindness to offer<br>As gift to the pearl of them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here! hold him out there by the yard wing,<br>And don’t let him know by a sign:<br>Turn his head to you — ever so little!<br>I can’t bear his eyes to meet mine.<br>Then — stand still, old boy! for a moment …<br>These tears, how they blind as they fall!<br>Now, God help my hand to be steady…<br>Good-bye! — to the pearl of them all!</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>
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The horses come galloping home,
Leaping and bucking and playing
With sides all a lather of foam;
But painfully, slowly behind them,
With head to the crack of the fall,
And trying so gamely to follow
Comes limping th..."></div>
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