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There may be a rail, too, and will be a dyke 



On that side we can't see, as we pick the best place ; 



It is not quite the fence which ** the multitude " like, 

 You must not go slow, and you yet need not race. 



A good swinging gallop's the speed to apply, 



Give your horse just one hustle, to show you mean 

 work; 



That a fall you will share if he makes a good try. 

 Nor blame him unless he endeavours to shirk. 



You may come a howler, or may do the trick 

 In as masterly style as it ever was done ; 



You will find some such fences as these around Crick, 

 Which oftimes have thin'd out " a field " in a run. 



But I think I need tell you no more of my mind 

 Respecting the " leps " which may come in your 

 way ; 



My maxims are not unsuccessful, I find, 

 Though I've tumbled about a good bit in my day. 



If you don't want to fall hunt the hare on the downs, 

 Go coursing, or shoot little doves from a trap ; 



Alas ! the most careful have got thickest crowns. 

 Though their eyesight is good at discerning a gap. 



