Be hindered of my pastime,—so an end

To my rejoinder, "What, on the ground at last?

Vanquished in fight, a supplicant for life?

What if I raise you? 'Ware the casting down

When next you fight me!" Then, she lay there, mine:

Now, mine she is if I please wring her neck,—

A moment of disquiet, working eyes,

Protruding tongue, a long sigh, then no more,—

As if one killed the horse one could not ride!

Had I enjoined "Cut off the hair!"—why, snap