O love is like an untamed steed!-- <br />So hot of heart and wild of speed, <br />And with fierce freedom so in love, <br />The desert is not vast enough, <br />With all its leagues of glimmering sands, <br />To pasture it! Ah, that my hands <br />Were more than human in their strength, <br />That my deft lariat at length <br />Might safely noose this splendid thing <br />That so defies all conquering! <br />Ho! but to see it whirl and reel-- <br />The sands spurt forward--and to feel <br />The quivering tension of the thong <br />That throned me high, with shriek and song! <br />To grapple tufts of tossing mane-- <br />To spurn it to its feet again, <br />And then, sans saddle, rein or bit, <br />To lash the mad life out of it!<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bedouin-2/
