e Dese love to ride, 
ilent Bush-boy alone by my side: 
\way—away, from the dwellings of men, 
the Antelope’s haunt, and the Buffalo's glen; 
By vallebe emote 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 flood; 
And the mighty Rhinoceros wallows at will 
In the pool where the wild Ass is anki his fill. 
O’er the brown Karroo, where the bleating cry 
Of the Springbok’s fawn sounds plaintively; 
Where the Zebra wantonly tosses his mane, 
rt 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 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 travels in haste, 
Hieing away to the home of her rest, 
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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.” 
; PRINGLE. 
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