 | How - 1873 - 222 pages
...the sun, With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the Desert afar, from man. Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side ; When the wild turmoil3 of this wearisome life, With its scenes of oppression, corruption, and strife... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Voyages and travels - 1873 - 518 pages
...to read his book. Only, you will wish to be off to Africa, and follow the chase in its savage wilds. 'Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bushboy alone by my side : O'er the brown karroo where the bleating cry Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively. Where the... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...friends beloved, that once were mine. William Knox.—Born 1789, Died 1825 1478.— AF AB IN THE DESERT. : When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I turn to the past ; And the... | |
 | M. Stannard - British Columbia - 1873 - 260 pages
...had been accustomed to on the diggings. " Where far in the bush I loved to ride, With my faithful dog alone by my side, Away, away, from the dwellings of men, By the wild bird's haunt and the kangaroo's glen." I found here a large field of usefulness and labour, but how... | |
 | Henry Astbury Leveson - Africa - 1874 - 360 pages
...he does wisest — who takes most of both," CHAPTER XVIII. THE N'GOBAI AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY. ' ' Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent...— . Away, away from the dwellings of men, By the antelope's haunt, and the buffalo's glen ; By valleys remote where the ourebi plays, Where the gnoo,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...at the evening fall ; And the fiend -like laugh of hyenas grim, Fearfully startles the twilight dim. With post-boy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry : ' Stop thief ! stop thie in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered Koranna or Bechuan... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...sun, — With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan, I fly to the desert afar from man. 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...on the 5th of December 1834. The following piece was much admired by Coleridge : Afar in the Desert. ost ardently desired is for ever frustrated. I have spent a life of the base : When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast, And, sick of the present, I turn to the past ; And the... | |
 | 1876 - 918 pages
...solitudes. Here is a picture of this desert as he painted it. " Afar in the desert I love to ride, AVitb the silent bush-boy alone by my side. Away, away, from the dwellings of men, liy the wild dccrs* haunt, and the buffalos' glen ; Ну valleys remote, where the Oribi plays, 'Where... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 618 pages
...good nets undone — Aweary of all that is nnder the sun; With that sadness of heart whieh no stranger Afar in the Desert I love to ride. With the silent bush-boy alono by my side; When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life, With its seenes of oppression, eorruption,... | |
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Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side... 
