Pondering on Glory, Chivalry, and Kings,

And Orders, and on all that he had done—

And wishing that post-horses had the wings

Of Pegasus, or at the least post-chaises

Had feathers, when a traveller on deep ways is.

XXXI.

At every jolt—and they were many—still

He turned his eyes upon his little charge,

As if he wished that she should fare less ill

Than he, in these sad highways left at large