A Tatar horse from Derbend, all slimness, muscle, bone,
By ears erect like bamboo shoots its fiery spirit shown:
Hoofs swift as wind that spurn at space in rapid light career:
Fit to be trusted with your life in peril far or near.--
Ah, since a steed like this you own of such a haughty strength,
To burst across a thousand miles were but a journey's length.