And irrigate it with perpetual streams;

A meadow where the sportive insects hum,

Like listless topers singing o'er their cups,

And ply their forelegs like a man who tries

With maimed hands to use the flint and steel.

The Battle

There where the horsemen rode strongest

I rode out in front of them,

Hurled forth my battle-shout and charged them;

No man thought blame of me.