Selections from Browning Author:Robert Browning Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD-EL-KADR [1842] AS I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my side, As I ride, as I ride, That, as I... more » were double-eyed, He, in w.hom our Tribes confide, Is descried, ways untried, As I ride, as I ride. As I ride, as I ride To our Chief and his Allied, 10 Who dares chide my heart's pride As I ride, as I ride ? Or are witnesses denied — Through the desert waste and wide Do I glide unespied As I ride, as I ride? As I ride, as I ride, When an inner voice has cried, The sands slide, nor abide (As I ride, as I ride) 20 O'er each visioned homicide That came vaunting (has he lied ?) To reside — where he died, As I ride, as I ride. As I ride, as I ride, Ne'er has spur my swift horse plied, Yet his hide, streaked and plied, As I ride, as I ride, Shows where sweat has sprung and dried, — Zebra-footed, ostrich-thighed — 30 How has vied stride with stride As I ride, as I ride ! As I ride, as I ride, Could I loose what Fate has tied, Ere I pried, she should hide (As I ride, as I ride) All that's meant me — satisfied When the Prophet and the Bride Stop veins I 'd have subside As I ride, as I ride ! 40 "HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX" [16-] 1 SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; " Speed! " echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened ...« less