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We were so deeply impressed with the courage displayed by a buffalo in a prose tale that we transposed the description into verse.
A buffalo, lord of the plain, / With massive neck and mighty mane, / While from his herd he slowly strays, / He on green herbage calm doth graze, / And when at last he lifts his eyes / A savage wolf he soon espies, / But scarcely deigns to turn his head / For it inspires him with no dread, / He knows the wolf is treacherous foe / But feels he soon could lay him low, / A moment more and there's a pair / Whose savage eyes do on him glare, / But with contempt them both he scorns / Unworthy of his powerful horns;