“Bring forth the horse!”

— George Gordon Byron

the horse was brought; In truth, he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs. Mazeppa http://readytogoebooks.com/MZP21.htm (1819), stanza 9.

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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