Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-24
KIT RIDE.
EY LILLE.

BY Q DLLxR. -
Rung Now you bet you; 1 rather guess so.
But he's blind as a badger. Whoa, Psehe.
No, you think so to look at his eyes,
But ne is badge blind, and II happened this
We lay in the grassel and the ~sun-burnt clo-
That spread on the ground like a great brow
EOrthwa,d, and southwark, west AID away
Tothe BraEoss TO where our lodges lay,
one broad and anoroken see OF brown.
Awaiting the curtains Of nights TO come do Wn
To cover us over and conceal our flight
With my brswn bride, o from an Indian
That lay In the rear fun ride Of a night
We louneed in the grass-her eyes were in
And her hands on my knee. and her hair was
Ia It's wealth and its hood. pouring on and sl
Her bosom wine red. and pressed never BY
And her ouch was as warm as the nge of
Burnt brown as 1t reached TO the kiss of the
And her words were allow as The l~ute-throst-
Ana as laden with love as the heart when it
In is hot eager answer to earliest love
or the bee hurried home by lis burden OF
sweets,
We lay down in the grass on the broad plain
Old heveis and I, and my stolen brown bride.
Forty full lines II q foot TO ride,
Forty full miles II a foot, and tbs devils
OF red COmanches on the track /
When once they strike it Let the sun go
Soon, very soOn,' muttered bearded Old Rev
AS ne ,peered at the sun, lying low on his
Holding fast to his lasso; tn IN he Jerked st
Va AEED-
and sprang to his feet. and glanced swiftly
And then dropped, as II shot. with his ear to
he grounO- |
Then to his feet, and 70 me, to my bride,
While his eyes were like IRE, ais face was
His form ike a king, and his beard IKE a
And his voice loud and shrill, as If Blown
from a reed |
"PuIl. pull In your lsssos, and bride to
And speed, II ever for life you would speed;
And ride for your lives, for your lives you
For the plain is shame, the prairie On IRE,
And feet o wild horses hard dying before
/ hear like q sea breaking high on the shoFe; |
While the buffalo come Ike the surge OF the
Driven far by the flame. driving fast on us
AS a hurricane comes. crushing palms in his
ire"
We drew in the Iassos, seized saddle and rein,
Threw them on, sinched them up, sinehed
Ana again drew the girth, cast aside the ma
Cut away tapidsros, Ioosed the sash from its
Cast aside the catenss red and spangled with
aud goId-mounted Colts, true companions
Cast the red silk ssrapas TO the wind in a
Ands so barred to the skin sptang all haste to
As bare as when born, as when new rom the
or God, without word. or one word Of COM
Turned head to the BrsEos in q red race with
death, sf2a sd /
Turned head TO the BRACES, with q breath IN
Blowing hot nom a king, leaving death In his
Turned head to the Brazos, with a sound in
Like the rush Of an army. and a fash In the
or s-red wall Of IRE reaching mp to the sky,
Stretching hercein pusuiE OF a black rolling
sushing fast upon US as the wind sweeping
Tree l.
and sfsr from the desert, bearing death and
despair
Not q word. not q wall from q lip was let fail,
Not a kiss from my bride, not q look or low
OF Ioye-uote or cours ge, tut on Ger the rlsin
30 steady and stu, leaning low to the name.
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Rode We on, rode We three. rode we gray nose
Rec ching long, breathin g loud. like crevlced
wind blows,
Yet we broke not q whisper, We breathed not
There was work to be done, there was death
the chance was as one to q thousand for
all.
Gray nose 70 gray nose and each steady mus
Stretched neck and stretched nerve till the
hollow earth rang
And the fCam from the Hank the Group
around K the spray on a storm-driven ]
deck j
Twenty miles! thirty mflesi-s dim distant
Epsck-
a long reaching Il and the Brsz9s in
Ana rose in my seat with a shout of delight
I stood in my st4rrup and looked to my right,
But Eeyels was gone; I glanced by my shout
And saw his horse stagser; I saw his head
Hard On his breast, his naked breast I
Low down to the name as SO swifter and I
Ran reaching out for us the red-footed FIRE. I
To right and olelt the black buffalo came, I
In miles and In millions, rolling On IN de- {
with their boards to the dust and black tails ]
In the air. Y
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Rushing on IN the rear. reaching NIGH reach l
he rode neok to neck 10 a buffalo bull, ]
Ihe monarch OF millions, with shaggy name Q
Of smoke and of dust. and it shook with de- Z
Of battle. with rage and With beiIowings LOUD I
Ane uneaTthly, and up through Its lowering 7
the dash of his eyes like halt hidden il
fire, r
while his keen crooked horns through the l
aNnwnn nj his mana
Ike black lances lifted and lifted again;
Ana Hooked out this once, for the Ore licked C
he Tell and was lost, and we rode two ,
and two. y
looked to my lert then, and nose, neck and 5
.ahk slowly, sank surely. tin back to my p
ma up through the lsck.blOwin veil of her n
I'D amfuIIi IN mine hertwo maryleous eyes r.
a longing and love, yet a look oIdespair, 10
Ands pity for me as she felt the smoke fold "a
flames reaching far for her glorious al
Ter sinking steed faltered, his eager ears fell, b
o and fro snd unsteady, and all the ntek's A
I'D sa6side ana Teeede, and the nerves fell Ia
men sns saw that my own steed stiu lorded
1ith a look Of delight, for this PaOhe, you lie
her father's,A nd cnes at the South Santa y
fee n
,ad won a whole herd, sweeping everything
down l..
j a race where the world came to run for the OF
nd so when I won the true heart of my '
y neighbor's ard deedlisst enemy's child, nj
child OF the kiDgly war chief OF his ri
tribe On
re brought me this steed to the border the 81
night f-
he met Revtls and me In her perilous hlght 10
rom the lodge of the chief TO the north Bra
ASIDE; IN
nd said, 50 half guessing OF III as she smiled,
5 II testing, that !, and I only, shOnl6 ride M
be nset-foOted Pache, so II KIN should pur- pa
sue s4lt
should surely escape without other ado los
lan 20 ride, without blood, tothe north Bra ~:
nos side, VI
nd await her-and walt tai the next hollow :
moon -
ung her horn in the palms, when surely OK
and soon or.
nd swim she would join me, and all would rs
be well 500 r.a "
ithout bloOdshed or word. And row as -,
she fell Et
the mont, and went Town In the ocean SMsa'
o. nre, @
10 last that 1 saw was q look OF delight 81
lat 1 should escape a lOYe-a desire Re
4 revcr = word, nor atook of appeal, Jul
- q no. waa1A kn&1 ehnarfa Tlg,Hw EaAA