Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — ! " he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless,... The World's Work - Page 5311912Full view - About this book
| Medicine - 1912 - 582 pages
...the field. Then came the King's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Buried in the dry and trodden sand. And ran and snatched...it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down, And saved the great cause that heroic day." • May you all emulate the king's son.... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1917 - 692 pages
...Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. JOHN CASPER... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1917 - 700 pages
...Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. JOHN CASPER... | |
| Medicine - 1914 - 528 pages
...a sword of keener steelThat blue blade that the king's son bears— but this Blunt thing!" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away...snatched it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. —Edward Rowland Sill. St. Joseph-Buchanan-Andneui... | |
| Edward Rowland Sill - Poetry, Modern - 1887 - 134 pages
...Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battleshout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. HOME. HERE... | |
| Edward Rowland Sill - Poetry, Modern - 1887 - 136 pages
...Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battleshout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. HOME. HERE... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. THE POOL'S... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - Christian ethics - 1889 - 160 pages
...Then came the King's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day." There are opportunities enough. The people... | |
| Edward Rowland Sill - History - 1889 - 122 pages
...Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battleshout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. HOME. HERE... | |
| James Russell Miller - Christian life - 1891 - 294 pages
...keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears — but this Blunt thing.' — He snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away...snatched it, and with battle shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day." With the blunt sword, broken now, which the... | |
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