326 SHIKAR SKETCHES. 



I'LL LEND THEE THESE. 



Tune Til give thee All.' 

 I. 



I'll lend thee these, for luck attends 



The aged sportsman's loan, 

 My spurs and spear, the truest friends 



I e'er could call my own. 

 The spur whose gentlest touch could coax 



The dullest steed to go, 

 And better far the spear whose pokes 



Have many a boar laid low. 



II. 



Though hogs may hide and steeds may swerve, 



And blank may prove the day, 

 Yet still the search itself will serve 



This lesson to convey : 

 If ever care should bring thee pain, 



Or sorrow dim thine eye, 

 Let S2mr and spear be used again, 



And see how grief will fly ! 



1 Oriental Sporting Magazine,' 

 February, 1832. 



