THE WAR STEED. 
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Shivering is produced by a determination of blood from the 
integument to the heart. Why should we promote this deter¬ 
mination, or allow the blood to congest there? You should bleed 
immediately. I would even prefer bleeding during the shivering 
fit, for during this state you have a greater discharge from the 
lungs, and by bleeding at this time you lower the circulation on 
the right side of the heart. 
The legs should be frequently rubbed, and kept warm, to de¬ 
termine the blood to the parts, and, by the application of cold 
externally and generally, you lower the action of the right side of 
the heart. 
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THE WAR STEED. 
I’ve revell’d away the bloom of life, 
And I’ve borne the heavier years, 
When passionate pride and turbulent strife 
Are the guerdon of hopes and fears; 
’^Moiig women and men, I’ve found some few 
Not false as the rest, but fond and true; 
Yet a heart like my own is thine alone 
For dauntless deed 
My gallant, gallant steed. 
In the desert we met,—I claim’d no prize. 
But the brave steed lov’d the free; 
And a joy outflash’d from his fiery eyes 
At a mortal as wild as he : 
And when to the fight together we sped, 
On dashing to triumph o’er dying and dead, 
As forward all prest, thy conquering crest 
Their course decreed 
My gallant, gallant steed. 
Oh, Allah ! ’tis gladness to hear thy neigh, 
And gaze on thy lightning glance. 
When, paw ing and snorting to join the fray. 
Thou seest the proud foe advance. 
Tilt the trumpets resound, and I give thee the rein, 
M hile the loud wind is seizing thy fetterless mane, 
As onward w e go, till the dust-biting foe 
Their death drops bleed 
My gallant, gallant steed. 
And oft, in the calm of the noiseless night, 
I lie by thy panting side ; 
And the fitful rest as the furious fight 
With my dauntless steed divide; 
And thine be the pulse, my charger proud, 
I may feel when I fall by the death-shaft bow’d ; 
And, oh ! by one blow may w e both be laid low, 
From life’s chains freed. 
My gall ant, gallant steed. 
The Musical Bijou, 1833 . 
