ONE day in the Highlands while taking a stroll I saw a stray sheep down a precipice roll; A boy was let down by a rope o'er the brink, And the sheep was pull'd up by the horns: you may think What a beautiful picture it was, the whole scene. "A picture!—a @3bas-relief@1 surely you mean!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES by EZRA POUND THE BARD'S EXCUSE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE by JOEL BLAU THE HEATHER ON FIRE by MATHILDE BLIND LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY by ANNE BRONTE THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |