“With white tails smoking free,
Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show
Their kinship to their sisters of the sea –
And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow.
Still out of hardships bred,
Spirits of power and beauty and delight
Have ever on such frugal pastures fed
And loved to course with tempests through the night.”

— Roy Campbell (poet)

"Horses on the Camargue," lines 41-48
Adamastor (1930)

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South African poet 1901–1957

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