FORWARD! Hark forward's the cry! One more fence and we're out on the open, So to us at once, if you want to live near us! Hark to them, ride to them, beauties! as on they go, Leaping and sweeping away in the vale below! Cowards and bunglers, whose heart or whose eye is slow, Find themselves staring alone. So the great cause flashes by; Nearer and clearer its purposes open, While louder and prouder the world-echoes cheer us: Gentlemen sportsmen, you ought to live up to us, Lead us, and lift us, and hallo our game to us -- We cannot call the hounds off, and no shame to us -- Don't be left staring alone! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CAPTIVE LION by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES ASPECTS OF THE PINES by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE A CAMEO by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE DARBY AND JOAN by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY CHARACTERS: SUSANNAH BARBAULD MARISSAL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |