“BOXER.”
“Full many a lusty horse I’ve viewed,
When following father’s team,
Would draw the plough, make furrow and ridge,
With the coulter’s after gleam.
Now, fair befall
Good horses all!
But never a one can I recall
That could compare, in my esteem,
With Boxer, my father’s horse.
“If I to bet were a bit inclined,
One hundred pounds I’d lay