# Quote — Eleanor Farjeon, The New Book of Days

> His tail was a fountain.
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> His nostrils were caves.
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> His mane and his forelock
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> Were musical waves.
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> He neighed like a trumpet.
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> He cooed like a dove.
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> He was stronger than terror
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> And swifter than love.

- Author: [Eleanor Farjeon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon.md)
- Book: [The New Book of Days](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/the-new-book-of-days.md)
- Page: 181
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon#The_New_Book_of_Days_(1961)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/the-new-book-of-days/his-tail-was

## More from this book

> He could not be captured,
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> He could not be bought,
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> His running was rhythm,
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> His standing was thought;
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> With one eye on sorrow
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> And one eye on mirth,
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> He galloped in heaven
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> And gambolled on earth. And only the poet
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> With wings to his brain
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> Can mount him and ride him
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> Without any rein,
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> The stallion of heaven,
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> The steed of the skies,
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> The horse of the singer
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> Who sings as he flies.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/the-new-book-of-days/he-could-not.md)

Topics: [poetry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry.md)

> From the blood of Medusa
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> Pegasus sprang.
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> His hoof of heaven
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> Like melody rang.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eleanor-farjeon/the-new-book-of-days/from-the-blood.md)