 | Medicine - 1891 - 1404 pages
...down, And there in the dusky morning light A steed as blick as the steeds of night Was seen to pass as with eagle flight As if he knew the terrible need He stretched away with the ntmost speed. And there 'mid the light of the breaking day, The surgeon was fifteen miles away.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...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 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
...through the flash 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 the terrible need...stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. 4. Still sprung from those swift hoofs,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...through the flush of 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... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 184 pages
...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 the terrible need...stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...as black as the 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... | |
 | Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...flush of the morning light, A steed as blaek as the steeds of night Was seen to pass, as with eagle's 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... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...through the flash 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 the terrible need, He stretched away with the utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell— but his heart was gay. With Sheridan fifteen miles away.... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...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 the terrible need,...away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell, but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift hoofs thundering... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...flush of 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 with his utmost speed; Hills rose and fell— But his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. General Grant pressed the enemy in Petersburg.... | |
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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 the terrible need; He stretched... 
