Refined, natural and brilliant she streches her neck in a long and thin curve. Stately and tranquil she offers us her beauty like a monument to the perfection of the Arab thoroughbred.

I am beautiful, for I have grown in my beloved's garden.
I stood in spring rain and got yearning to drink,
I stood in the sun and got heat to drink-now I stand open and wait.

(Edith Södergran, The Rose
translated by David McDuff)