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No song is mine of Arab steed -- / My courser is of nobler blood, / And cleaner limb and fleeter speed, / And greater strength and hardihood / Than ever cantered wild and free / Across the plains of Araby.
Go search the level desert land / From Sana on to Samarcand -- / Wherever Persian prince has been, / Or Dervish, Sheik, or Bedouin, / And I defy you there to point / Me out a steed the half so fine -- / From tip of ear to pastern-joint -- / As this old iron horse of mine.