 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,...  The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill - Page 247by Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1897 - 360 pages
...through the pathless air Thou shalt find otherwhere Unerring, home. OPPORTUNITY. dpporfumfg. '"PHIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: — There spread...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. ER SILL. A1TYNKEN, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, — Sailed on a river of... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 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. — Edward Roland Sill. CHAPTER VII. " Impossible ! " it is not good French. — Napoleon. There is... | |
 | Henry Albert Stimson - 1898 - 390 pages
...In either case we act, taking our life in our hands. Prof. JAMES : The Will to Believe, 29. NOTE 12. OPPORTUNITY This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. ER SILL: "Poems," 1888. CHAPTER II NOTE i. "Wer Gott nicht fiihlt in sich und alien Lebens Kreisen,... | |
 | Edmund Guilbert - 1898 - 372 pages
...is aimless and indifferent. One, out of his own experience, has written a lesson concerning this : " A craven hung along the battle's edge, And thought,...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day." • Even if the prospect were so desperate as that, the writer would still hope and believe that the... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 pages
...sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king's son bears — but this Blunt tiling— ! " he snapt and flung it from his hand, And lowering...enemy down And saved a great cause that heroic day. SILLIMAN, BENJAMIN, a noted American scientist, born at Trumbull, Conn., August 8, 1779; died at New... | |
 | Fabiola hospital association - 1899 - 94 pages
...his door. — Emerson. "Somewhere in the secret of every soul Is the hidden gleam of a perfect life." OPPORTUNITY This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. — BR Sill. Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend ; be discreet. —Talmud.... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - 1899 - 440 pages
...which to shape his image, or as the prince in Sill's poem seized the weapon a coward threw down : — Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead, And...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. 389 because it brings about the second, too. Tennyson exclaims, "O well for him whose will is strong."... | |
 | Mrs. Elizabeth Hill Spalding, Frank Robertson Moore - 1901 - 160 pages
...Commit to memory the story just told as you find it in the following poem by Edward Rowland Sill:— OPPORTUNITY. This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. and all cowards? 2. Did the craven try to win with his sword, or did he give up without trying? 3.... | |
 | 1901 - 1136 pages
...Had I a sword of keener steelThat blue blade that the king's son bears :-— but this Hlunt tiling !' He snapt and flung it from his hand, And, lowering,...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. THE THEOSOPHIST. (FOUNDED IN 1879.) VOL. XXII, NO. 10, JULY 1901. 'THERE IS NO RELIGION HIGHER THAN... | |
 | 1901 - 590 pages
...Hilt-burled in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched It, and with battle-shout Lifted afresh ho hewed his enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. OUR FOREIGN POPULATION. BY REV. REUBEN CHANDLER SMITH, Presiding Elder of Clarion District, Erie Conference,... | |
| |
