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The Hydaspes

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And I, cooing in my saddle, with lost time.     His weapons and horses the finest.     Beloved of God, engendered fiercely     for the occasion - with     pin stripes and a drinking vessel     of the most expert silver.     Pharaonic splendor,     ingots of the heaviest gold     borrowed sun bright yet so untarnished     they hold up the morning sky.     Two hands encase that handsome     volume - finest of imported leather and     saddle soap transparent to the eye     so that all might ring forth     its belated vision;     not be dreary earthed with brine     but terse,     furtive inside the gathering glade.

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"And I, cooing in my saddle, with lost time...."

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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