 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it in his turn. Cowper. THE SOUTH AFRICAN DESERT.1 AJAR in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy...from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote, where the oribi2 plays, Where the gnu, the gazelle, and the... | |
 | English poetry - 1859 - 374 pages
...'ga iomchar chum do theach ; Tha 'laithe 'nis ach beag air teachd gu ceann, 61 AFAR IN THE DESERT. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side ; When the ways of the world oppress the heart, And sick of the present I turn to the past. ' When... | |
 | Eliza Rennie - Great Britain - 1860 - 354 pages
...the place assigned it amongst the " Gems" with which we find it so frequently incorporated : — " Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy by my side — When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I turn to the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...the sun ; With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the desert, afar from mail. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side ; When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...Scenes of Teviotdale," " Ephemerides," and "African Sketches." He died in 1834. AFAR IN THE DESERT. AFAR in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I turn to the past ; And the... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...sun ; With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the desert afar from man. x. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side : When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, "With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife;... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 272 pages
...flood, And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill. 2. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side ; O'er the brown karroo,2 where the bleating cry Of the springbok's1 fawn sounds plaintively ; Where... | |
 | Thornley Smith - Beechamwood Mission Station - 1864 - 304 pages
...confidence and hope to the care of that God who had so long been his own protector and guide. CHAPTER XIII. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent...from the dwellings of men By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen ; By the valleys remote where the Oribi plays, Where the gnu, the gazelle, and... | |
 | James Hewitt (geography lecturer at Battersea training coll.) - 1864 - 200 pages
...flood, And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the pool where the wild ass is drinking his fill. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side : O'er the brown karroo, where the bleating cry Of the spving-boc's fawn sounds plaintively ; And the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1865 - 276 pages
...brooks. e TRAN6'-t>OBT, rapture; exultation. LESSON XX. AFAR IN THE DESERT: NATURE'S SOLITUDE. AFAE in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy...the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt and buffalo's glen, By valleys remote, where the oribi1 plays, Where the gnu,1 the gazelle, and the hartbeest1... | |
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