Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PHANTOM HOOFS, by CALVIN DILL WILSON


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PHANTOM HOOFS, by                    
First Line: Only, - / man will be more lonely
Last Line: The beat and rhythm of the hoofs.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses


Only, --
Man will be more lonely.
We cannot love a force
As we have loved, and love, the horse.

Yet we dare not too much weep,
Though Bucephalus and Rosinante sleep.
Their pains are past; their rest is deep.

Still, when moon or starlight gleams,
Often we shall hear in dreams,
Passing near our human roofs,
The beat and rhythm of the hoofs.





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