For Aliatar, one sad morn, Mounted his steed and blew his horn; A hundred Moors behind him rode; Fleeter than wind their coursers strode.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now, Dasher!

Of horses of the gods: Far as a shepherd from some spot on high O'er the wide main extends his boundless eye, Through such a space of air, with thundring sound, At one long leap th' immortal coursers bound.

And Damayanti in the midst of her maids, beholding those birds of extraordinary appearance was filled with delight, and strove without loss of time to catch those coursers of the skies.

Each gondolier had suffered the bows of his boat to incline slightly towards the left shore of the canal, as the jockey is seen, at the starting-post, to turn his courser aside, in order to repress its ardor, or divert its attention.

Or hath thy master put her out to run, Then in what field, what champion, feeds this courser, This well-pac'd, bonny steed that thou so praisest? BOY.

One even now comes conquering Towards this house, sent by a southland king To fetch him four wild coursers, of the race Which rend men's bodies in the winds of Thrace.

[Footnote 1: 'Coursers:' the heroic rhymes.]

And when he reached the level plain, full twenty feet away, He hobbled fast his courser, lest he should farther stray.

Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed and long-resounding pace.

You don't know how exultant it is to stand alone, above the forest of your fellows,to lift up your highest bough of feeling,to meet the Northland's fiercest courser that thinks to lay you low.

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So, up to the housetop the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys,and St. Nicholas too.

Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umbered arms, by fits, thick flashes send, Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.

I added this saving clause in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers, which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing.

You could neither restrain your courser, nor conceal your imagery, nor express your ideas otherwise than in the language of a scholar.

He spurred his courser to the blood; One clattering bound he took, The Moorish maiden turned to him.

It is some forty miles still westwards to the Strand of Tralee; the last half of the way among hills carpeted with heather; and the Strand itself, with the tide out, leaves a splendid level of white sand as far as the eye can reach, tempting Find to try his famous courser.

i. 316. 'With such array Harpalyce bestrode Her Thracian courser.' (Dryden).

His only chance of capturing a wild courser lay in his skill in casting the spear, which might enable him to pierce the animal through the upper part of the neck, and thus produce a temporary insensibility, during which time he might be secured without any permanent injury.