| 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
...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...eagle flight. As if he knew the terrible need, He streiched awav with his utmost speed; Hills rose and fell; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...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 flush of 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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...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 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... | |
| Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 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...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
...fray, And SherUUn 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, л? black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass as with eagle flight. As if he knew the terrible... | |
| A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 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.... | |
| John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...leading down ; A steed, 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...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... | |
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