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Hard as hurdle arms,
with a broth of goldish flue
Breathed round; the rack of ribs; the scooped flank;
lank
Rope-over thigh; knee-nave; and barrelled shank -
Head and foot, shoulder and shank -
By a grey eye's heed steered well, one crew, fall to;
Stand at stress. Each limb's barrowy brawn, his thew
That onewhere curded, onewhere sucked or sank -
Soared or sank -
Though as a beechbole firm, finds his, as at a
roll-call, rank
And features, in flesh, what deed he each must do -
His sinew-service where do.
He leans to it, Harry bends, look. Back, elbow, and
liquid waist
In him, all quail to the wallowing o' the plough: 's
cheek crimsons; curls
Wag or crossbridle, in a wind lifted, windlaced -
See his wind- lilylocks -laced;
Churlsgrace, too, child of Amansstrength, how it hangs
or hurls
Them -broad in bluff hide his frowning feet lashed!
raced
With, along them, cragiron under the cold furls -
With-a-fountain's shining-shot furls. |
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