Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALL, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DURIVAGE


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First Line: There hangs a saber, and there's a rein
Last Line: And his horse pined to death -- I have told you all.
Subject(s): War


THERE hangs a sabre, and there a rein,
With a rusty buckle and green curb chain;
A pair of spurs on the old gray wall,
And a mouldy saddle -- well, that is all.

Come out to the stable -- it is not far;
The moss grown door is hanging ajar.
Look within! There's an empty stall,
Where once stood a charger, and that is all.

The good black horse came riderless home,
Flecked with blood drops as well as foam;
See yonder hillcock where dead leaves fall;
The good black horse pined to death -- that's all.

All? O, God, it is all I can speak.
Question me not -- I am old and weak;
His sabre and his saddle hang on the wall,
And his horse pined to death -- I have told you all.




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