 Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears, — but this Blunt thing — !" he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless,...  Ingalls of Kansas: A Character Study - Page 131by William Elsey Connelley - 1909 - 232 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 458 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. AN ASPIRATION YALE CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER n, 1879 LET us return once more, we said, And greet... | |
 | Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 468 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. AN ASPIRATION YALE CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMBER n, 1879 LET us return once more, we said, And greet... | |
 | Richard Alfred Waite - 1907 - 126 pages
...flung it from his hand And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,...enemy down And saved a great cause that heroic day. Under the flag of Immanuel many tin soldiers are parading to the music of popular Christianity, who,... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - 1907 - 268 pages
...it from his hand, And, lowering, crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,...enemy down And saved a great cause that heroic day. — EDWARD ROWLAND SILL. THERE is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on... | |
 | Mary Allette Ayer - 1908 - 212 pages
...broken sword Hilt buried in the dry and sodden sand, And ran, and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. — ER Sill. Wendell Holmes says that it does not matter so much where one stands as the direction... | |
 | David James Burrell - 1908 - 296 pages
...sore bested, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, And ran and snatched it, and, with battle-shout Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. Let us hear, then, the conclusion of the whole matter ; If thou hast aught to do, do it now ! In that... | |
 | Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - 1909 - 416 pages
...flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. A VISIT TO THE WEECK (From Swiss Family Mobinsori) JOHANN EUDOLP \V"YSS After breakfast, Fritz and... | |
 | Charles David Williams - 1909 - 310 pages
...broken sword Hilt buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy down And saved a great cause that heroic day." CHAPTER XVI THE PARTIAL VIEW Numbers xriii. 13. "And Balak said unto Balaam, ' Come, I pray thee, with... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, 15 And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. HELPS TO STUDY Biographical: Edward Rowland Sill was born in Connecticut in 1841. He graduated at Yale... | |
 | Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Catherine Turner Bryce - 1909 - 392 pages
...broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. — EmvAUD ROWLAND SILL. 292 r^ } OrowelK^eed.and-blowelfrineadi S *f .-ąS n, n.<r limit on tnrhsous... | |
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