for Aix is in sight! "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like... Class-book of English poetry - Page 289by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight 1 " "How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled Is thought-sick at the act. QUEEN. Ah me, what act,...rouis so loud, and thunders in the index ? HAM. Ixsok loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack -boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...Joris, " for Aix is in sight !" '' How they'll greet us !" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buflf-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Philip Lawrence - Recitations - 1871 - 410 pages
...Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| 1871 - 314 pages
...Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, " How they 'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. 55 Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without... | |
| Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 196 pages
...for Aix is in sight ! " " How they'll greet us ! " and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-socket's rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots,... | |
| Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...they'll greet us 1" — and all in a moment his roan, Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone j And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of...And with circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. n. Then I oast loose my buffcoat, each holster let full, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt... | |
| Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...gasped Joris, " for Aix is in sight ! " " How they'll greet us ! " and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
..." for Aix is in sight! " How they'll greet us!"—and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood... | |
| Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...for Aix is in sight ! How they'll greet us ! " — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and crop over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland...blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-socket's rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off' both my jack-boots,... | |
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