A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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The Petted Nag.
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The Petted Nag.
A Petted Nag along the road,
Drew, but unwillingly, its load,
Wou'd stop, if but a hillock rose,
Nor pass'd a grip till forc'd by blows.
Now up, now down, now mov'd, now fast,
It hardly reach'd it's home at last.
Drew, but unwillingly, its load,
Wou'd stop, if but a hillock rose,
Nor pass'd a grip till forc'd by blows.
Now up, now down, now mov'd, now fast,
It hardly reach'd it's home at last.
When to an empty manger ty'd,
With shoulder gall'd and smarting side,
It thus reflects in settled blood,
This stubbornness does little good:
Had I my free endeavours lent,
In far less time, nor half so spent,
I might have got my business o'er
And been repay'd with victuals store.
With shoulder gall'd and smarting side,
It thus reflects in settled blood,
This stubbornness does little good:
Had I my free endeavours lent,
In far less time, nor half so spent,
I might have got my business o'er
And been repay'd with victuals store.
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