Under his spurning feet, the roadLike an arrowly alpine river

Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind…. – Thomas Buchanan Read

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You were a lord if you had a horse…
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . . The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. – Abraham Lincoln

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps its the risk, the gamble. In any event its a thing I need. – William Faulkner

It isnt important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
Its the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts – Harry S Truman

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