Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CAVALIER TUNES: BOOT AND SADDLE, by ROBERT BROWNING


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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!"





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