A liking for the small grey horse that bears 505
The paralytic man, and for the brute—
In Scripture sanctified—the patient brute,
On which the cripple, in the quarry maimed,
Rides to and fro: I know them and their ways.[370]
The famous sheep-dog, first in all the Vale, 510
Though yet to me a stranger, will not be
A stranger long; nor will the blind man’s guide,
Meek and neglected thing, of no renown!
Soon will peep forth the primrose; ere it fades