A slender poet must have time to grow, / And spread and burnish as his brothers do.

The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot. […] The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.

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But she heard the quick steps passing along the gravel-walk; she listened to their echo with anxiety, even tenderness; all became silent, and her heart filled with sorrow for the anguish she had inflicted.