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" 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 247
by Edward Rowland Sill - 1906 - 423 pages
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Elson Grammar School Reader: Book four

William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 426 pages
...sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, 15 And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. * By permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co. HELPS TO STUDY Biographical: Edward Rowland Sill was born...
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Elson Grammar School Readers, Book 4

William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1909 - 428 pages
...sore bestead, And weaponless, and saw the broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand, 15 And ran and snatched it, and with battle-shout Lifted...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...
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Ingalls of Kansas: A Character Study

William Elsey Connelley - 1909 - 252 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. As compared to the poem of Ingalls these fall to the place of the glow of the firefly at midnight when...
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The Howe Readers: A fifth reader

Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - 1909 - 416 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. A VISIT TO THE WEECK (From Swiss Family Mobinsori) JOHANN EUDOLP \V"YSS After breakfast, Fritz and...
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A First [-fifth] Reader, Volume 5

Frances Eggleston Blodgett, Andrew Burr Blodgett - 1910 - 504 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. THE WAY TO WEALTH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BEX.JAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) was one of the most remarkable men...
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The Greatest Things in Religion: Being Studies in Some of the Christian ...

Eugene Marion Antrim - 1910 - 176 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. " —Sill. ' Our great business with Christianity is to proceed upon it. " — Chalmers. " When you...
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The Character Building Readers: First reader, part one-[eighth year]

Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910 - 298 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 ROWLAND SILL. VII. NOW The venerable Past — is past; 'Tis dark, and shines not in the ray...
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Ethics for Children: A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Ella Lyman Cabot - 1910 - 298 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. MARCH: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY Questions : Would you be willing to be so made that you could not help...
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A Language Series: Book one-[two], Book 1

Robert Comfort Metcalf, Augustine L. Rafter - 1910 - 284 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 on that heroic day. — EDWARD ROWLAND SILL. Compare this poem with Incident of the French Camp, page...
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Poems of Action: A Collection of Verse for Youth

David Richard Porter - 1911 - 292 pages
...In peaceful turret pent, So sits the while at home the mother well content. ROBERT Louis STEVENSON OPPORTUNITY THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:...enemy down, And saved a great cause that heroic day. EDWARD ROWLAND SILL THE WARRIOR'S PRAYER LONG since, in sore distress, I heard one pray, ' Lord, who...
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