Broadside ballad entitled 'The Boar Hunt'

Transcription

The Boar Hunt.

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See the bright sunbeam of gold lights the mountain,
Soon will he gild both the morass and flood;
Now the wild boar drinks from nature's clear fountain,
Soon will the javelin reek in his blood.
Hark! the horn calls away, and starts the wild boar,
Then boldly we follow through forest, o'er moor,
While our dogs bay loud and our horses neigh,
Thro' brush-wood and danger-hark! on and away!
While our dogs bay loud and our horses neigh,
Thro' brush-wood and danger-hark! on and away!
To hunt the boar, whose roar's as loud
As nature's rude trumpet, a bursting cloud.

Together and loud as Jove cracking thunder,
We dash thro' the thicket, and swim thro' the flood;
Strange animals rush from coverts in wonder,
Birds to the air call away their young brood.
Hark! the yager's blast!-the boar's in sight!-
Our dogs gather round him! he turns to the fight!
But our dogs fall back from his tusk at bay,
Then again to the chase hark on and away.
To hunt the boar, &c.

Thunder he's roaring! like lightning we're flying!
The dogs again grapple, again he's at bay;
The jav'lins fix him; but, though he is dying,
Dogs he throws from him till lifeless they lay.
Hark! the horn sounds his knell, and gathers the band;
With jav'lins rais'd, round the carcase we stand;
Then, mounting our steeds, right homeward we stray,
Till next morning's sunbeam shall call us away.
To hunt the boar, &c.

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