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Hunting Songs

by R. E. Egerton-Warburton
Egerton-Warburton, R. E. (1804-1891)

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The Woore Country.
  
Quæsitum Meritis.
  
Old Oulton Lowe.
  
Tarporley Hunt, 1833.
  
The Little Red Rover.
  
The Fox and the Brambles.
  
The Earth Stopper.
  
The Old Brown Forest.
  
The Dead Hunter.
  
The Spectre Stag.
  
On the New Kennel, erected on Delamere Forest.
  
The Ladie Cunigunda of Kynast.
  
The Love-Chace.
  
A Recollection.
  
The Tantivy Trot.
  
Hawkstone Bow-Meeting.
  
The Ball and the Battue.
  
On the Landlord
  
Cheshire Chivalry.
  
On the Picture of the Cheshire Hunt,
  
The Breeches.
  
Inscription on the Handle of a Fox's Brush, mounted and presented by the Author to Wilbraham Tollemache, Esq.
  
The Sawyer.
  
Song, written for and sung by I. H. SMITH BARRY, ESQ.
  
Tarwood.
  
A “Meet” at the Hall, and a “Find” in the Wood.
  
Song.
  
Sport in the Highlands.
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“Importation of Vermin.”
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I.
  
Bowmeeting Song.
  
Farmer Dobbin.
  
The Blooming Evergreen.
  
Cheshire Jumpers.
  
Tarporley Hunt Song.
  
A Remonstrance on Lord Stanley's Suggestion that the Session of Parliament should be held during the Winter Months.
  
Highwayside.
  
Count Warnoff.
  
Le Gros-Veneur.
  
The Keeper.
  
A Railway Accident with the Cheshire.
  
Tarporley Hunt Song.
  
A “Burst” in the Ball Week.
  
Farmer Newstyle and Farmer Oldstyle.
  
Home with the Hounds; or, the Huntsman's Lament.
  
On hearing that “The Cheshire” were to hunt Five Days a Week.
  
We are all of us Tailors in Turn.
  
A Word ere we Start.
  
Hard-riding Dick.
  
Thompson's Trip to Epsom.
  
A Modern Stable.
  
On Reading in the “Times,” April 9th, 1860, a Critique on the Life of Asheton Smith.
  
Tarporley Swan-Hopping.
  
Killing no Murder.
  
On Peter Collison's late Fall.
  
Riding to Hounds.
  
Newby Ferry.
  
Hunting Song.
  
Tarporley Song.
  
A Growl from the Squire of Grumbleton.
  
The Coverside Phantom.
  
The Ladie of the Castle of Windeck.
  
The Two Wizards.
  
On a Tame Fox,
  
The Mare and her Master.
  
Farewell to Tarporley.
  
The Pheasant and the Fox.
  
The Stranger's Story.
  
The Lovers' Quarrel.
  
'Tis Sixty Years Since.
  
The Close of the Season.
  
Lines
  
Lines
  
Epitaph
  
Epitaph on A. B. C. by X. Y. Z.
  
On a Thorn Tree planted over the Grave of “Miss Miggs,” a Brood Mare.
  
The Roebuck at Toft.
  
Charade.
  
Welsh Hunting.
  
Paraphrase by a Master of Hounds.
  
Epigram on a hard-riding Youth named Taylor.
  
Inscription

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Song.

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Stags in the forest lie, hares in the valley-o!
Web-footed otters are spear'd in the lochs;
Beasts of the chace that are not worth a Tally-ho!
All are surpass'd by the gorse-cover fox!
Fishing, though pleasant,
I sing not at present,
Nor shooting the pheasant,
Nor fighting of cocks;
Song shall declare a way
How to drive care away,
Pain and despair away,
Hunting the fox!

II

Bulls in gay Seville are led forth to slaughter, nor
Dames, in high rapture, the spectacle shocks;
Brighter in Britain the charms of each daughter, nor
Dreads the bright charmer to follow the fox.
Spain may delight in
A sport so exciting;
Whilst 'stead of bull-fighting
We fatten the ox;
Song shall declare a way, &c.
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III

England's green pastures are graz'd in security,
Thanks to the Saxon who car'd for our flocks!
He who reserving the sport for futurity,
Sweeping our wolves away left us the fox.
When joviality
Chases formality,
When hospitality
Cellars unlocks;
Song shall declare a way
How to drive care away,
Pain and despair away,
Hunting the fox!
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