 | 1891 - 1404 pagine
...And there 'mid the light of the breaking day, The surgeon was fifteen miles away. Under his flying feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed....steed like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, his wild eyes full of fire. Lo! he is nearlng his heart's desire, He is bringing his master into the... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...Were beating, like prisoners assaulting their walls, [calls; Impatient to be where the battle-field Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Uuder his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind,... | |
 | 1897 - 404 pagine
...to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master. Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to...battle-field calls; Every nerve of the charger was trained to full play. With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pagine
...to traitors the doom of disaster ; The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to...strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. 5 Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed, And the landscape sped away... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pagine
...heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their wijls, Impatient to be where the battle-field calls ; Every nerve of the charger was strained to fuT play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. 6 Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine... | |
 | 1864 - 744 pagine
...to traitors the doom of disaster ; The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to...river, flowed. And the landscape sped away behind, Like nn ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 pagine
...to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the -heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to...strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. And the landscape gped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a barque... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pagine
...traitors the doom of disaster ; • The heart of the steed and the heart of the master .Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to...bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on with his wild eyes full of fire, But, lo! he is near ing his heart's desire — He is stuffing the smoke of the roaring... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1865 - 778 pagine
...Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster; The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to...strained to full play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, Under his spurning feet, the road Like an ocean flying before the... | |
 | 1865 - 594 pagine
...to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the stcud and the heart of the master Were beating, like prisoners assaulting their walls — Impatient...was strained to full play — With Sheridan only ten railed away 1 Under his spurning feet the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed; And the landscape... | |
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The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners... 
