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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — a poem card from Justes Mots

This vivid fragment captures the excitement and passion of a fox hunt, with hounds and horsemen racing through the countryside in exhilaration. The poem conveys primal energy, bloodlust, and the thrill of pursuit with energetic language and rhythm. It celebrates the intensity of adventure and natural instinct.

Bold Robin Dawe was over first,
Cheering his hounds on at the burst;
The field were spurring to be in it,
"Hold hard, sirs, give them half a minute,"
Came from Sir Peter on his white.
The hounds went romping with delight
Over the grass and got together;
The tail hounds galloped hell-for-leather…

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