“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
Section 2, member 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.
Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?”
Windy Nights, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
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Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes ridin…" by Robert Louis Stevenson?
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Li He
(790–816) Chinese writer
"Twenty-three Horse Poems", 5 (《马诗二十三首（其五）》), in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Xu Yuanchong (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 91
Original: (zh-CN) 大漠沙如雪，燕山月似钩。
何当金络脑，快走踏清秋。
“Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
(1636–1711) French poet and critic
Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.
Épitres (1701) V, 44
“Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.”
Der Erlkönig (1782)
Context: Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy in the crook of his arm
He holds him safe, he keeps him warm.
Muhammad
(570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Fadhlul Qur’an, Page 599
Shi'ite Hadith
Muhammad
(570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Sunan Abu Dawood, Book of Knowledge, Hadith 3634
Sunni Hadith
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
Confucius
(-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
