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Ogden Nash - The Solitary HuntsmanOgden Nash - The Solitary Huntsman
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The solitary huntsman    No coat of pink doth wear, But midnight black from cap to spur    Upon his midnight mare. He drones a tuneless jingle    In lieu of tally-ho: “I’ll catch a fox    And put him in a box        And never let him go.” The solitary huntsman,    He follows silent hounds. No horn proclaims his joyless sport,    And never a hoofbeat sounds. His hundred hounds, his thousands,    Their master’s will they know: To catch a fox    And put him in a box        And never let him go. For all the fox’s doubling    They track him to his den. The chase may fill a morning,    Or threescore years and ten. The huntsman never sated    Screaks to his saddlebow, “I’ll catch another fox    And put him in a box        And never let him go.”
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