 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...of night Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight. As if he knew the terrible need, He streiched awav with his utmost speed; Hills rose and fell; but his...south, The dust like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or a trail of a cornet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...the morning light, A steed, as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass as with eagle flight. As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hill rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. 4 Still sprung from... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night "Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight, As if he knew the terrible need : He stretched away...his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. 4. Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...the morning light, A steed, л? black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass as with eagle flight. As if he knew the terrible need • He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hill гоне and fell, but his heart waa gay. With Slieridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...Was seen to pass as with eagle flight — As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with the utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell— but his heart...With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from these swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...Sheridan fifteen miles away ! Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster, Forebodiug to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the stcud and the heart of the master Were... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...steeds of night, And there, through the flush of morning light, Was seen to pass as with eagle flight— As if he knew the terrible need He stretched away with his utmost speed; Hill rose and fell—but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...the morning light, A steed, as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass as with eagle flight ; As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away...those swift hoofs thundering South The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...morning light, A steed, as black as the steeds of night. Was seen to pass as with eagle's flight — As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away...his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. General Grant pressed the enemy in Petersburg. He gradually extended his lines south and west, seeking... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1866 - 654 pages
...with eagle flight: As if he knew the terrible need, Пe stretched away with his utmost speed. Hill rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan...those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding... | |
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Sheridan twenty miles away. But there is a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down ; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass, as with eagle flight, As if he knew... 
