“"Bring forth the horse!" — 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.”

— George Gordon Byron

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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the horse was brought;
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