Brain and brawn and blood are thine;

And what I drink, and what I eat,

Whose can it be, if ’tis not mine?

If I can number twice three horses,

Are not their muscles mine? and when I’m mounted,

I feel myself a man, and wheel my courses,

Just as if four-and-twenty legs I counted.

Quick then! have done with reverie,

And dash into the world with me!

I tell thee plain, a speculating fellow