Ebony

Each leg a steadfast pillar at every moment it comes down to earth on one leg the knee bent, leaping in mid-run over the hard obstacle: it passes one by one over every obstacle like lightning its mane loose in the gale. Its body is drenched with the sweat of hard striving the muscles of its body all laid bare gleaming ebony. The green, green slope of the mountain morning and night fresh air before it beneath its feet. The horse dealer's effort is in vain: this jewel, this great dark diamond, this ebony: peerless on earth: will not surrender to any bridle of leather or of gold: the free horse of love...