Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO HIS MARE, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD


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First Line: My girl has legs as slim and straight
Last Line: When I dare to let her go.
Variant Title(s): Cowboy To His Mare
Subject(s): Animals; Horses


My girl has legs as slim and straight
As tule-rushes are.
Her eyes are lovely things to see
And always look afar.
Her little pointed restless ears,
Her haunches keen and strong --
My mare, my mare, my Betsey mare,
She's worth a bit of song.
Her nose is as soft as a women's breast,
Her tail a cloud by night,
Her nostrils flled with morning fire --
A swallow in her flight.
Her feet are shod with the West Wind,
Her neck a bended bow;
And all my sins are left behind
When I dare to let her go.





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