Up from the south, at break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay. The affrighted air with a shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan... The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 - Page 399by Frank Moore - 1889 - 560 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...shudder bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan...uncontrolled, Making the blood of the listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, With Sheridan twenty miles away. But there is a road from... | |
| Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan...wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon bar; And louder yet into Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled, Making the... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled, Making the blood of the 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... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...shudder bore, Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. 2 And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar, And louder yet into Winchester... | |
| American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...shudder bore, ' Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan...those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bíir, And louder yet into Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled. Making the blood... | |
| Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. 2. And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar ; And louder yet into Winchester... | |
| Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 184 pages
...bore, Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan...uncontrolled, Making the blood of the listener cold, As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. 75 But there is a road... | |
| Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 180 pages
...Winchester rolled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled, Making the blood of 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, through the flush of the morning... | |
| Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...shudder bore, Like a herald iu haste, to the Chieftain's door The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more — And Sheridan twenty miles away ! And heavier still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar ; And louder yet into Winchester... | |
| John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...shudder bore, Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away. And wilder still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar, And louder yet into Winchester... | |
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