This fellowship of straight riders, and hard men

To hounds—the flyers of the hunt.

I think

That we shall never more in days to come

Hold cheery talk of hounds and horses (each

Praising his own the most) shall steal away

Through brake and coppice-wood, or side by side

Breast the sharp bullfinch and deep-holding dyke,

Sweep through the uplands, skim the vale below,

And leave the land behind us like a dream.