 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household tires gleam warm and bright Above, the spectral glaciers shone ; And from his lips escaped...!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! " O stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon this breast !" A tear stood in his bright... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped...! ' And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! ' O stay ! ' the maiden said, ' and rest Thy weary head upon this breast ! A tear stood in his bright... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 196 pages
...the light Of household (ires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from hm lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!"...wide!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior! 1.1 " O stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy wean- head upon this breast !" A tear stood in his bright... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...shone, And from his lips eseaped a groan, Exeelsior ! " Try not the Pass ! '' the old man snid ; " Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide ! " And loud that clarion voiee replied, Exeelsior ! " O stay,'' the maiden snid, " and rest Thy weary head upon this hreast... | |
 | Songs with piano - 1860 - 86 pages
...faulchioa'from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Upideei, &c. 8 " 0 stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon this breast I " A tear stood in his bright blue eye, But still he answered with a sigh, Upideei, &c. 4 At break... | |
 | J. C. - Ballads, English - 1860 - 218 pages
...unknown tongue, Kxeelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and Alx>ve, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior ! rlghl ; " Try not the Pass !" the old man said : " Dark lowers the tempest overhead ; The roaring... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1861 - 316 pages
...tongue, Excelsior! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; 12 Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped..." And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior! " O stay," the maiden said, " and rest Thy weary head upon this breast! " A tear stood in his bright... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped...overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide !" And loud the clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! " 0 stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this... | |
 | Arthur Mee - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 690 pages
...tongue: Excelsior I In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan : Excelsior I " Try not the pass I " the old man said, " Dark lowers the tempest overhead. The roaring torrent... | |
 | Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb - Humor - 1921 - 74 pages
...mentally unbalanced, his mood changes and again he is shouting. He's worse than a cuckoo clock, that boy. "Try not the Pass" the old man said; "Dark lowers...wide!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior! "Oh stay" the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!" A tear stood in his bright blue... | |
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In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the pass! 
