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TAKE HER, BREAK HER by ANACREON

First Line: AH TELL ME WHY YOU TURN AND FLY
Last Line: TO MOUNT THE CAR AND MANAGE THEE.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; HORSES;
AH tell me why you turn and fly,
My little Thracian filly shy?
Why turn askance
That cruel glance,
And think that such a dunce am I?

O I am blest with ample wit
To fix the bridle and the bit,
And make thee bend
Each turning-end
In harness all the course of it.

But now 'tis yet the meadow free
And frisking it with merry glee;
The master yet
Has not been met
To mount the car and manage thee.



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