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Example text
Twas when he fought the true import of those Grew dear, though even then his mien deceived; For less in wrath, he seemed, than mildly grievedWhich made his blows no whit less true or hard. His hair was flax fresh gleaming from the card; His eyes, the flax in bloom. IZ THE SONG OF THREE FRIENDS A match in might, Fink lacked five inches of his comrade's height, And of his weight scarce twenty pounds, they say. His hair was black, his small eyes greenish gray And restless as though feeling out of place In such a jocund plenilunar face.
Heads low, yet loath to graze, They waxed and withered in the oily haze, Z2 THE SONG OF THREE FRIENDS Now ponies, now a crawling Rock of sheep. Behind them three slack horseguards, half asleep, Swayed limply, leaning on their saddle-bows. The boat crews, lolling in a semi-doze, Still watch the herd; nor do the gazers dream What drama nears a climax over stream, What others yonder may be watching too. Now looming large upon the lucent blue, The foremost ponies top the rim, and stare High-headed down the vacancies of air Beneath them; while the herders dawdle still And gather wool scarce halfway up the hillA slumbrous sight beheld by heavy eyes.
Gazing from a height, The lookout saw the marching of the Night Across a vast black waste of peaks and deeps That could have been infernal cinder-heaps, The relics of an ancient hdl gone cold. That night they saw a wild aurora rolled Above the lifeless wilderness. It formed Northeastwardly in upright waves that stormed To westward, sequent combers of the bow That gulfed Polaris in their undertow And hurtled high upon the Ursine Isles A surf of ghostly fire. Again, at whiles, 34 THE SONG OF THREE FRIENDS A shimmering silken veil, it puffed and swirled As 'twere the painted curtain of the world That fluttered in a rising gale of doom.