1 | A horse snorts before stepping forward. | |
2 | Yes, your legs, like horses' dancing on the green grass. | |
3 | I liken you, my darling, to a mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh. | |
4 | Every time I heard her heart go galloping like a herd of horses it made her more real. | |
5 | And as he rode through the purlieus of his city, the white mane of his amber-coloured steed was all that he could clearly see in the dusk of the high streets. |