 | R. L. Paget - American poetry - 1898 - 474 pages
...With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprang from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust like smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet,...miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flow'd, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...from those swift hoofs thundering south The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traitors...miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...with his utmost speed, Hills rose and fell, but his heart was gay, With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls,...miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind,... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 312 pages
...Was seen to pass as with eagle flight; As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with the utmost speed ; Hill rose and fell ; but his heart...miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed, And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the... | |
 | Readers - 1899 - 312 pages
...fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. As if he knew the terrible need, He stretched away with the utmost speed; Hill rose and fell ; but his heart was...miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road, Like an arrowy Alpine river, flowed, And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1903 - 84 pages
...Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still spring from those swift hoofs, thundering south, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth ; Or the trail of a...miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind,... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1905 - 872 pages
...Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust, like smoke from the cannon's moutn ; Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,...miles away. Under his spurning feet, the; road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind,... | |
 | Babylonia - 1903 - 672 pages
...sprung from 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...miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 614 pages
...Sheridan 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...miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind, Like an ocean flying before the... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Burt - American poetry - 1904 - 394 pages
...Sheridan 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,...miles away. Under his spurning feet the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind,... | |
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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 the doom of disaster. The heart of the steed, and the heart of the master... 
