 | George Thompson - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1827 - 516 pages
...appearances, such as those of houses, quadrupeds, birds, &c. And to bound away with the eagle's speed, With the death-fraught firelock in my hand, (The only law of the Desert land,) But 'tis not the innocent to destroy, For I hate the huntsman's savage joy. Afar in the Desert I love... | |
 | Stephen Kay - Cape Province (South Africa) - 1833 - 552 pages
...prey at the evening fall; And the fiend-like laugh of hyenas grim Fearfully startles the twilight dim. Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side, Away, away, in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot before never pass'd, And the restless... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1834 - 570 pages
...at the evening fall; And the fiend-like laugh of hyenas grim, Fearfully startles the twilight dim. " Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side— Away, away in the wilderness vast, ,8 Where the white man's foot before never passed, And the restless... | |
 | American literature - 1834 - 568 pages
...to ride! There is rapture to vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with a herald's speed. " Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side— Away, away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, and the buffalo's glen; By valleys... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 686 pages
...journey, from which, as a specimen of Europaeo South African poetry, we give our readers a stanza:— "Afar in the Desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : Away—away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, and the buffalo's glen; By valleys remote, where... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Leitch Ritchie - Africa, Southern - 1839 - 392 pages
...to ride! There is rapture to vault on the champing steed, And to bound away with the eagle's speed, With the death-fraught firelock in my hand— The...the silent Bush-boy alone by my side : Away—away from the dwellings of men, By the wild deer's haunt, by the buffalo's glen ; By valleys remote where... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will In the v'ley* where the wild ass is drinking his fill. ' Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bush-boy alone by my side ; O'er the brown karroo, where the bleating cry Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively, • Vley,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...their nest, Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view In the pathless depths of the parch'd Karroo. Afar in the desert I love to ride. With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: Away—away—in the wilderness vast, Where the white man's foot hath never ¡KISS'»], And the quiver'd... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...The Desert in South Africa referred to in these spirited lines, is the great Karroo. 180 STUDIES IN Afar in the desert I love to ride With the silent bushboy alone by my side: O'er the brown Karroo, where the bleating cry Where the zebra wantonly tosses his mane Of the springbok's... | |
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With the death-fraught firelock in my hand— The only law of the Desert Land! Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side: Away—away in the Wilderness vast, Where the White Man's foot hath never passed, And the quivered 
