96 Frank Beers^ Huntsman. 



readers some appropriate lines, kindly contributed 

 by the author, Sir Herewald Wake. 



A RUN FROM HALSE COPSE. 

 By Sir Herewald Wake. 



I. 



No worthier theme than hunting can a poet's soul inspire, 

 The stirring music of the chase shall tune my Muse's lyre ; 

 Men, hounds, and horses I will sing, and ever as you listen 

 Your pulses shall beat faster yet, your eyes with fire shall glisten. 



11. 



For you shall hear the story told how Reynard fate defied. 

 And ran a gallant race for life, how gamely Reynard died ; 

 For with that day's achievements all the country side resounds. 

 And 1 will sing the praises of the Duke of Grafton's hounds. 



III. 



At Astwell Mill the fixture was, and to that fixture came 



A company of sportsmen true, and not unknown to fame. 



The Duke and Lord Charles PltzRoy,* George Pennant,! too, 



was there, 



St. Maur,:|: with his hard-riding spouse, had come the sport to 



share. 



IV. 



Campbell and Grosvenor,§ Byass, Bull, and Fuller to the fore. 

 Wake and his wife, the Wisemans, too, Robarts, and many 

 more ; 



* Lord Charles FitzRoy now Duke of Grafton. 



f George Pennant now Lord Penrhyn. 



\ St. Maur, etc., now Duke and Duchess of Somerset. 



§ Grosvenor now Lord Ebury. 



