| Medicine - 1891 - 1404 pages
...distant town, A good broad highway leading down, And there in the dusky morning light A steed as blick as the steeds of night Was seen to pass as with eagle...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.... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad highway, leading down; And there, through the flash of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds...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.... | |
| Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...the listener cold, As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. But there is. a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down; And there, thru the flush of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night Was seen to pass, as with... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. 3 But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad...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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. 3 But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad...there, through the flush .of the morning light, A stecd, as black as the steeds of night, Was secn to pass as with eagle flight. As if he knew the terrible... | |
| American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...the listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And SherUUn twenty miles away. But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad...there, 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... | |
| Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...listener cold, As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. 3. But there is a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down ; And there, through the flash of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night "Was seen to pass, as with eagle... | |
| A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...uncontrolled, Making the blood of the listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad highway leading down ; And there through the flash of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass as with eagle... | |
| Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...thought of the stake in that fiery fray — And Sheridan twenty miles away! Sheridan's Ride. 257 But there is a road from Winchester Town — A good broad highway leading down ; And there, thro1 the flush of the morning light, A steed as blaek as the steeds of night Was seen to pass, as... | |
| John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...the listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad highway leading down ; A steed, as black as the steeds of night, And there, through the flush of morning light, Was seen... | |
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