At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice... The New York Review - Page 2111842Full view - About this book
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1842 - 590 pages
...hand of ice That banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and grey, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, THE BARBER OF BEAULIEU. BY MASK. WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE CRUIK8HANK. ON the skirts of the New... | |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1842 - 148 pages
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