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" FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry. "
The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science - Page 492
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Heroic Ballads: With Poems of War and Patriotism

David Henry Montgomery - American poetry - 1890 - 344 pages
...henceforth, that foul debate 2 'Twixt noblemen may cease ! ANONYMOUS. THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT.1 FATE stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main,2 At Kaux,3 the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed...
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Famous Single and Fugitive Poems

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...run ; And now I live, and now my life is done ! CHEDIOCK TICHEBOBNK. C jje *3alU* of Jlghuoart. FAIE stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove oar chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the ™*in At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his...
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The Blue Poetry Book

Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 384 pages
...has turn'd the heel : But Nora's heart is lost and won, — She's wedded to the Earlie's son ! SCOTT. BALLAD OF AGINCOURT FAIR stood the wind for France,...sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed...
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Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys

William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 394 pages
...little touch of Harry in the night — And so our scene must to the battle fly. Shakespeare. THE BATTLE FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed...
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A Briefer Practical Rhetoric

John Scott Clark - English language - 1891 - 332 pages
...dactylic ; it is not until the fourth verse is reached that the prevalent foot is seen to be dactylic : " Fair stood the wind for France, "When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will | tarry." And the same is true of Longfellow's stanza, " Speak ! speak ! thou fearful guest, Who...
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Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys

William Ernest Henley - American poetry - 1891 - 404 pages
...little touch of Harry in the night — And so our scene must to the battle fly. Shakespeare. THE BATTLE FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed...
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The Blue Poetry Book

Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 pages
...But Nora's heart is lost and won, — She's wedded to the Earlie's son ! Scon. BALLAD OF AGINCOUBT FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed...
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A Book of Famous Verse

American poetry - 1892 - 266 pages
...among : God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young. Charles Kingsley. THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT FAIR stood the wind for France When we...sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Lauded...
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The English Poets, Volume 1

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 650 pages
...was his nymph, his fla;ne, his swan, his show'r. To THE CAMBRO-BRITONS AND THEIR HARP, HIS BALLAD pp AGINCOURT. Fair stood the wind for France, When we...sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed...
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Choice English Lyrics

James Baldwin - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. — WILLIAM COWPER. 1. THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT. FAIR stood the wind for France, When...sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry ; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed...
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