The Poetry of Sports (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1896)
Peek, Hedley, Lang, Andrew, Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 187
Of fops in hounds, than in the reasoning kind) Puffd with conceit run gladding o’er the plain And from the scent divert the wiser train ; For the foe’s footsteps fondly snuff their own, And mar the music with their senseless tone ; Start at the starting prey, or rustling wind, And, hot at first,… … Dost thou in hounds aspire to deathless fame ? Learn well their lineage and their ancient stem. Each tribe with joy old rustic heralds trace, And sing the chosen worthies of their race ; How his sire’s features in the son were spy’d, When Die was made the vigorous Ringwood’s bride. —* Less sure…
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