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 | Sir Walter Scott, edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A. - 1904 - 986 pages
...weapon-point they close. They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-s\va3% and with lance's thnist ; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air; О life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Jntil at weapon-point they close. — Hey d the knight Robert fell, And moaned as dogs do, being half dead, Unwitting, as I deem : so then Godmur Qf sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And liends in upper air : Oh ! life... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close ; They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O, life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...did rushing come. — Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. — They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long look'd the anxious squires ; their... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1907 - 428 pages
...a later battle—Flodden —as fitfully descried by Marmion's Squires from a neighbouring hill-top: They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway,...men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air ; O life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. At... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pages
...James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear, or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. f ; O life and death were in the shout. Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair. Long... | |
 | G. Dowse - Great Britain - 1908 - 104 pages
...James did rushing come. 85 Scarce could they hear or see their foes, Until at weapon-point they close. They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway...and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, 40 Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air. O life... | |
 | 1909 - 858 pages
...better for the fighting spirit which is the raw material of victory than to the battle pieces of Scott? They close, in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway...men fought upon the earth. And fiends in upper air; O! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout. And triumph and despair. Perhaps... | |
 | Dorothea Heness Knox - 1909 - 248 pages
...her penitence. One thing only beat at her brain — he was gone, he was gone. CHAPTER XIII 1755"And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And friends in upper air." — Scott. They were weary, heartsick days for Esther, the days which followed... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close. — : Oh ! life and death were in the shout, Recoil and rally, charge and rout, And triumph and despair.... | |
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