 | 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
...thought of the stake in that fiery fray, With Sheridan twenty miles away. But 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 of night Was seen to pass as with eagle... | |
 | 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 - 528 pages
...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...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And SherUUn twenty miles away. But there is a road from Winchester town, A good, broad highway leading down...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... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...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 the flash of the morning light, A steed as black as the steeds of night "Was seen to pass, as with eagle... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - Cedar Creek (Va.), Battle of, 1864 - 1865 - 184 pages
...thought of the stake in that fiery fray, And Sheridan twenty miles away. 75 But there is a road from Winchester town, A good broad highway leading down...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
...blood of the listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, But 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 of night, Was seen to pass as with eagle... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1866 - 654 pages
...remark about a State and a people of which he was so ignorant." SHERIDAN'S BIDE. BY T. BUCHANAN BEAD. UP from the South, at break of day, Bringing to Winchester...with eagle flight: As if he knew the terrible need, Пe stretched away with his utmost speed. Hill rose and fell ; but his heart was gay, With Sheridan... | |
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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... 
