 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 pages
...with eagle flight, As if he knew the terrible need; He stretched away with his utmost speed; Hills rose and fell; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprang from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - American poetry - 1890 - 344 pages
...with eagle flight, As if he knew the terrible need ; He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan...those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or a trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...with eagle flight. As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with hi& utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan...those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth : Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Forboding to traitors... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy - Readers - 1890 - 410 pages
...with eagle flight ; As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with the \itmost speed ; Hills rose and fell — but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek, Battle of, Va., 1864 - 1891 - 58 pages
...with eagle flight, As if he knew the terrible need ; He stretched away with his utmost speed ; Hills rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan...those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to... | |
 | James Vincent Coombs - Elocution - 1891 - 420 pages
...with eagle flight. As if he knew the 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 swift hoofs, thundering-South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's moulii ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...with eagle flight, As if he knew the 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 hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1893 - 132 pages
...He stretched away with his utmost speed, Hills rose and fell, but his heart was gay, With Sheriden fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster. Foreboding to traitors... | |
 | American poetry - 1893 - 472 pages
...He stretched away with his utmost speed, Hills rose and fell, but his heart was gay, With Sheriden fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and fasten Foreboding to traitors... | |
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Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed and the heart of the master Were beating like prisoners... 
