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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE ROAD TO CHORRERA, by ARLO BATES Poet's Biography
First Line: Three horsemen galloped the dusty way
Last Line: For the sake of the rider who would not heed!
Subject(s): Admiration; Horseback Riding
First Line: Three horsemen galloped the dusty way
Last Line: For the sake of the rider who would not heed!
Subject(s): Admiration; Horseback Riding
THREE horsemen galloped the dusty way
While sun and moon were both in the sky;
An old crone crouched in the cactus' shade,
And craved an alms as they rode by.
A friendless hag she seemed to be,
But the queen of a bandit crew was she.
One horseman tossed her a scanty dole,
A scoffing couplet the second trolled;
But the third, from his blue eyes frank and free,
No glance vouchsafed the beldam old;
As toward the sunset and the sea,
No evil fearing, rode the three.
A curse she gave for the pittance small,
A gibe for the couplet's ribald word;
But that which once had been her heart
At sight of the silent horseman stirred:
And safe through the ambushed band they speed
For the sake of the rider who would not heed!
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