The Fly-Away Horse

موضوع: The Fly-Away Horse الخميس أغسطس 19, 2010 3:59 am

by Eugene Field
Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish

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Oh, a wonderful horse is the Fly-Away Horse –
Perhaps
you have seen him before;
Perhaps, while you slept, his shadow has
swept
Through the moonlight that floats on the floor.
For it’s
only at night, when the stars twinkle bright,
That the Fly-Away
Horse, with a neigh
And a pull at his rein and a toss of his mane,
Is
up on his heels and away!
The Moon in the sky,
As he gallopeth
by,
Cries: “Oh! what a marvellous sight!”
And the Stars in dismay
Hide
their faces away
In the lap of old Grandmother Night.
It is
yonder, out yonder, the Fly-Away Horse
Speedeth ever and ever away –
Over
meadows and lanes, over mountains and plains,
Over streamlets that
sing at their play;
And over the sea like a ghost sweepeth he,
While
the ships they go sailing below,
And he speedeth so fast that the
men at the mast
Adjudge him some portent of woe.
“What ho there!”
they cry,
As he flourishes by
With a whisk of his beautiful tail;
And
the fish in the sea
Are as scared as can be,
From the nautilus up
to the whale!
And the Fly-Away Horse seeks those far-away lands
You
little folk dream of at night –
Where candy-trees grow, and
honey-brooks flow,
And corn-fields with popcorn are white;
And the
beasts in the wood are ever so good
To children who visit them there
–
What glory astride of a lion to ride,
Or to wrestle around with
a bear!
The monkeys, they say:
“Come on, let us play,”
And
they frisk in the cocoanut-trees:
While the parrots, that cling
To
the peanut-vines, sing
Or converse with comparative ease!
Off!
scamper to bed — you shall ride him to-night!
For, as soon as you’ve
fallen asleep,
With a jubilant neigh he shall bear you away
Over
forest and hillside and deep!
But tell us, my dear, all you see and
you hear
In those beautiful lands over there,
Where the Fly-Away
Horse wings his far-away course
With the wee one consigned to his
care.
Then grandma will cry
In amazement: “Oh, my!”
And she’ll
think it could never be so;
And only we two
Shall know it is true –
You
and I, little precious! shall know!

موضوع: رد: The Fly-Away Horse الخميس أغسطس 19, 2010 10:05 am

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