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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAVALIER TUNES: BOOT AND SADDLE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! Last Line: "cho. -- boot, saddle, to horse, and away!" Subject(s): Cavaliers | |||
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! Rescue my castle before the hot day Brightens to blue from its silvery gray. CHO. -- Boot, saddle, to horse, and away! Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you'd say; Many's the friend there, will listen and pray "God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay -- CHO. -- Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!" Forty miles off, like a roebuck at bay, Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array: Who laughs, "Good fellows ere this, by my fay, CHO. -- Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!" Who? My wife Gertrude; that, honest and gay, Laughs when you talk of surrendering, "Nay! I've better counsellors; what counsel they? CHO. -- Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAVALIER TUNES: MARCHING ALONG by ROBERT BROWNING THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN HE WILL GIVE ME POWER by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE ON LOYALTY IN THE CAVALIERS by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) THE OLD CAVALIER by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE SIR GAWAIN by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE |
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