" Afar in the Desert I love to ride. 



With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : 



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, the Sassayby, and Hartebeest graze; 



And the Eland and Gemsbok unliunted recline: 



By the skirts of grey forests o'erhung with \\ ild vine ; 



Where the Elephant browses at peace in his wood ; 



And the River-horse gambols unscared in the flood; 



And the mighty Rhinoceros wallows at will. 



In the pool where the Wild Ass is drinking his fill ; 



Where the Zebra wantonly tosses his mane. 



As he scours with his ti-oop o'er the desolate plain ; 



Aud the stately Koodoo exultingly bounds. 



Undisturbed by the bay of the hunter's hounds; 



Wliere the timorous Quagga's wild whistling neigh. 



Is heard by the fountain at fall of day ; 



And the fleet-footed Ostrich over the waste 



Speeds like a horseman who titivels in haste ; 



Hieing away to the home of her rest. 



Where she and her mate have scooped their nest. 



Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view. 



In the pathless wilds of the parched Karroo." 



PaiNGI.E. 



