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Afar in the Desert I love to ride	A
With the silent Bush boy alone by my side	A
When the sorrows of life the soul o'ercast	A
And sick of the Present I cling to the Past	A
When the eye is suffused with regretful tears	B
From the fond recollections of former years	C
And shadows of things that have long since fled	A
Flit over the brain like the ghosts of the dead	A
Bright visions of glory that vanish too soon	D
Day dreams that departed ere manhood's noon	D
Attachments by fate or by falsehood reft	A
Companions of early days lost or left	A
And my Native Land whose magical name	E
Thrills to the heart like electric flame	E
The home of my childhood the haunts of my prime	F
All the passions and scenes of that rapturous time	F
When the feelings were young and the world was new	G
Like the fresh bowers of Eden unfolding to view	G
All all now forsaken forgotten foregone	H
And I a lone exile remembered of none	I
My high aims abandoned my good acts undone	I
Aweary of all that is under the sun	I
With that sadness of heart which no stranger may scan	J
I fly to the Desert afar from man	J
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Afar in the Desert I love to ride	A
With the silent Bush boy alone by my side	A
When the wild turmoil of this wearisome life	K
With its scenes of oppression corruption and strife	K
The proud man's frown and the base man's fear	L
The scorner's laugh and the sufferer's tear	M
And malice and meanness and falsehood and folly	N
Dispose me to musing and dark melancholy	N
When my bosom is full and my thoughts are high	O
And my soul is sick with the bondman's sigh	O
Oh then there is freedom and joy and pride	A
Afar in the Desert alone to ride	A
There is rapture to vault on the champing steed	A
And to bound away with the eagle's speed	A
With the death fraught firelock in my hand	A
The only law of the Desert Land	A
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Afar in the Desert I love to ride	A
With the silent Bush boy alone by my side	A
Away away from the dwellings of men	P
By the wild deer's haunt by the buffalo's glen	P
By valleys remote where the oribi plays	Q
Where the gnu the gazelle and the hart beest graze	Q
And the k d and eland unhunted recline	R
By the skirts of grey forests o'erhung with wild vine	R
Where the elephant browses at peace in his wood	A
And the river horse gambols unscared in the flood	A
And the mighty rhinoceros wallows at will	S
In the fen where the wild ass is drinking his fill	S
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Afar in the Desert I love to ride	A
With the silent Bush boy alone by my side	A
O'er the brown Karroo where the bleating cry	O
Of the springbok's fawn sounds plaintively	N
And the timorous quagga's shrill whistling neigh	O
Is heard by the fountain at twilight grey	T
Where the zebra wantonly tosses his mane	U
With wild hoof scouring the desolate plain	U
And the fleet footed ostrich over the waste	A
Speeds like a horseman who travels in haste	A
Hying away to the home of her rest	A
Where she and her mate have scooped their nest	A
Far hid from the pitiless plunderer's view	O
In the pathless depths of the parched Karroo	T
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Afar in the Desert I love to ride	A
With the silent Bush boy alone by my side	A
Away away in the Wilderness vast	A
Where the White Man's foot hath never passed	A
And the quivered Cor nna or Bechu n	P
Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan	J
A region of emptiness howling and drear	T
Which Man hath abandoned from famine and fear	T
Which the snake and the lizard inhabit alone	V
With the twilight bat from the yawning stone	V
Where grass nor herb nor shrub takes root	A
Save poisonous thorns that pierce the foot	A
And the bitter melon for food and drink	W
Is the pilgrim's fare by the salt lake's brink	W
A region of drought where no river glides	X
Nor rippling brook with osiered sides	X
Where sedgy pool nor bubbling fount	A
Nor tree nor cloud nor misty mount	A
Appears to refresh the aching eye	O
But the barren earth and the burning sky	O
And the black horizon round and round	A
Spread void of living sight or sound	A
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And here while the night winds round me sigh	O
And the stars burn bright in the midnight sky	O
As I sit apart by the desert stone	V
Like Elijah at Horeb's cave alone	V
'A still small voice' comes through the wild	A
Like a Father consoling his fretful Child	A
Which banishes bitterness wrath and fear	T
Saying MAN IS DISTANT BUT GOD IS NEAR	T

Thomas Pringle

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