| Methodist Church - 1825 - 512 pages
...sun — With that sadness of heart which 110 stranger may scan, I fly to the deserts afar from man. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my sideWhen the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife;... | |
| Methodist Church - 1825 - 502 pages
...at the evening fall ; And the fiend-bJie laugh of hyenas grim Fearfully startles tho twilight dim. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my i Away — away—in the wilderness vast, Where tbe white man's foot hath never pasted, Ami the resile«*... | |
| Methodist Church - 1825 - 516 pages
...the desert land ;) But His not the innocent to destroy, For I hate the huntsman's aavagc joy. Afnr in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my sideAway — away — from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, ond the buffalo' ti glen}... | |
| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...of Europgeo Sotith African poetry, we give our readers » stanza : — 1827.]. Southern Africa. 131 "Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent...the buffalo's glen ; By valleys remote, where the orihi plays ; Where the gnoo, the gazelle, and the hartebeest graze , And the gemsbok and eland unhunted... | |
| George Thompson - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1827 - 516 pages
...law of the Desert land,) But 'tis not the innocent to destroy, For I hate the huntsman's savage joy. Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent...the wild deer's haunt, and the buffalo's glen ; By vallies remote, where the oribi plays ; Where the gnoo, the gazelle, and the hartebeest graze ; And... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1827 - 604 pages
...law of the Desert land,) But 'tis not the innocent to destroy, For I hate the huntsman's savage joy. Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my eidt : Away — away from the dwellings of men, By the wild dcer's haunt and the buffalo's glen ; By... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...their nest, Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view In the pathless depths of the parched karroo. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side. Away — away — in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered Coranna... | |
| Stephen Kay - Indigenous peoples - 1834 - 462 pages
...at the evening fall ; And the fiend-like laugh of hyenas grim, Fearfully startles the twilight dim. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side — Away, away in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot before never pass'd, And the restless Coranna or... | |
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