 Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, 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...  Fifty Famous Rides and Riders - Seite 1611916 - 303 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...from the cannon's mouth; Or a trail of a cornet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1864 - 744 Seiten
...from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping foster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster ; The heart of the steed and...play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed. And the landscape sped away behind, Like... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - 1865 - 180 Seiten
...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...play, With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 Seiten
...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...play^ With Sheridan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1865 - 778 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...comet sweeping faster and faster, Forebodiug to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the stcud and the heart of the master Were beating, like prisoners...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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