" Afar in the Desert I love to ride, 



AVith 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 Sassaybe, and Hartebeest graze ; 



And the Eland and Gemsbok unhunted recline : 



By the skirts of grey forests o'erhung with wild vine, 



Where the Elephant browses at peace in his wood 



And the River-horse gambols unscared in the tlood ; 



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 troop o'er the desolate plain 



And the stately Koodoo exultingly bounds. 



Undisturbed by the bay of the hunter's hounds ; 



Where the timorous Quugga'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 travels in haste ; 



Hieing away to the home of her rest, 



Where she and her mate have scooped their nest 



Far hid fromthe pitiless plunderer's view. 



In the pathless wilds of the parched Karroo.'' 



Pringlk. 



