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Browsing on the salty marsh grass, / Barrel-ribbed and blowsy-bellied, / With a neigh as shrill as whistles / And their mouths red-raw from thistles, / I have seen the brown _marsh tackies_, / Hiding in the swamps at Kiawah, / With the gray mosquito patches / Gory on their shaggy thatches.
Balky, vicious, and degenerates, / They are small as Spanish jennets, / But their sires were with El Tarab, / When he conquered Andalusia / For the Prophet and the Arab; / And they came with Ponce de Leon, / When the Spaniard made a _peon_ / And a Christian of the Carib.