IX.
Oh, generous, strong, and fleet are England’s steeds,
And mettled high their riders even as they!
Though with the cavalier the horse too bleeds,
Yet horse and cavalier have won the day.
Two Gaulish chiefs have perished in the fray.
To the streamlet edge the foe is backward driven;
With spur deep-plunged he leaps the stream—away!
But many a jaded horse his life hath given