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And so they kissed and parted. But James rode
Homewards with loosened rein: no ease at heart:
Vext that he had not acted fair and well.
So, pricking on the faster to beat down
The chafing thought, he took across the fields,
To slice an angle from the road, and cleared
The fences in his line: but at the third
The horse, who rose not, crushing thro' the stakes
Rolled on his rider, whom some ploughmen came
And found, to bear him homewards sense-bereft.
Homewards with loosened rein: no ease at heart:
Vext that he had not acted fair and well.
So, pricking on the faster to beat down
The chafing thought, he took across the fields,
To slice an angle from the road, and cleared
The fences in his line: but at the third
The horse, who rose not, crushing thro' the stakes
Rolled on his rider, whom some ploughmen came
And found, to bear him homewards sense-bereft.
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