LORD EPSOM
by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
 Horse, Lord Epsom did bestride
- With mastery and quiet pride.
- He dug his spurs into its hide.
- The Horse,discerning it was pricked,
- Incontinently bucked and kicked,
- A thing that no one could predict!
- Lord Epsom clearly understood
- The High-bred creature's nervous mood,
- As only such a horseman could.
- Dismounting, he was heard to say
- That it was kinder to delay
- His pleasure to a future day.
- He had the Hunter led away.
| "Lord Epsom" is reprinted from More Peers. Hilaire Belloc. London: Stephen Swift, 1911. |
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