 | 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.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...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...• He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hill гоне and fell, but his heart waa gay. With Slieridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...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...terrible need : He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. 4. Still sprung from... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 180 pages
...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...terrible need ; He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from... | |
 | 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...stretched away with his utmost speed; Hill rose and fell—but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift hoofs,... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1866 - 526 pages
...; And there, through the flush of the morning light, A steed, as black as the steeds of night, AVas seen to pass as with eagle flight. As if he knew the...utmost speed ; Hill rose and fell ; but his heart was ga)', With Sheridan fifteen miles away. 4 Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 352 pages
...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...terrible need, He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell, but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...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...he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with the utmost speed * Hill a rose and fell — but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away.... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...through the flush of the morning's light A steed,,as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass with eagle flight— As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with his utmost speed; With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Hill rose and fell—but his heart was gay, Still sprung from those... | |
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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... 
