A RAILWAY ACCIDENT 



II 



Away ! over meadow, away ! over plough, 

 Away ! down the dingle, away ! up the brow ! 

 "If you like not that fence, sir, get out of the way. 

 If one minute you lose you may lose the whole day." 



Ill 



Away ! through the evergreens, — laurel and box. 

 They may screen a cock-robin but not a run fox ; 

 As he pass'd the henroost at the Rookery Hall, 

 " Excuse me," said pug, " I have no time to call." 



IV 



The rail to our left and the river in front 



Into two rival parties now sever'd the hunt ; 



I will tell by-and-by which were right and which 



wrong. 

 Meanwhile let us follow the fox with our song. 



V 



Away ! to the Weaver, whose banks are soft sand, 

 "Look out, boys, ahead, there's a horse-bridge at hand." 

 One by one the frail plank we cross'd cautiously o'er, 

 I had time just to count that we number'd a score. 



VI 



Though fast fox and hounds, there were men, by my 



troth. 

 Whose ambition it was to go faster than both ; 

 If that grey in the skurry escap'd a disaster. 

 Little thanks the good animal ow'd to its master. 



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