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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAKE-BELIEVE HUNTING, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: How often, when the meet was at the hall
Last Line: His stall and pasture is your memory.
Subject(s): Children; Rocking Horses; Childhood
First Line: How often, when the meet was at the hall
Last Line: His stall and pasture is your memory.
Subject(s): Children; Rocking Horses; Childhood
How often, when the Meet was at the hall,
Those babes took horse, and, in their joy and pride,
Drew half the coverts of the country side;
Sweet innocents! for little Spot was all
Their kennel; hapless Reynard never knew
How wide a field his enemies embraced,
How both in fact and fancy he was chased,
And what that staunch old rocking-horse could do!
Oh! give him kindly greeting, man and maid,
And pat him, as you pass, with friendly hands,
In that dim window where disused he stands,
While o'er him breaks the lime-walk's flickering shade;
No provender, no mate, no groom, has he -
His stall and pasture is your memory.
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