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" Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. "
Living voices, selections chiefly from recent poetry [compiled by E. Spooner]. - Page 195
by Living voices - 1873 - 546 pages
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 48

Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 536 pages
...Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. II. " Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. in. , " 'T was moonset...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 600 pages
...through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. n. Not a word to each other, we kept the great pace Neck...each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twos moonset at starting;...
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The Oxford and Cambridge review, Volume 2

1846 - 578 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the light sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. ' Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, nerer changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 11

1846 - 534 pages
...Behind shut the postern, the lights sunk to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. II. ' Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place — I turned in my saddle and made the girths tight, Then shortened...
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Annual Register, Volume 88

Edmund Burke - History - 1847 - 910 pages
...мм! H«. 7mA 0JUM<L w» ci2'-f3«?¿ ^^ Tkr« : à« **eà i* u« r»:e-bolts undrew Ц M «W II. Not a word to each other, we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened...
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Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheon

Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace...the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. nx. 'Twas moonset at starting ; but while we drew near Lokeren, the cocks crew and twilight dawned...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review

Theology - 1850 - 538 pages
...>-lv,li MI it-lI'Ml Vllfll (: *' Not ft 'wofd to each other; we kept the great pace -n '•' tll(' f- -1 Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our...Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, ,;• Rebuekled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit....
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other : we kept the great pace...each stirrup and set the pique right, Rebuckled the check-strap, chained slacker the bit Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit. 'Twas moonset at starting,...
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Life of Dr. John Reid, Late Chandos Professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the ...

George Wilson - Anatomists - 1852 - 336 pages
...three horsemen are depicted as setting off from the former place at full gallop for the latter. '- Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace,...neck, stride by stride, never changing our place." First one horse and then another drops down dead. " And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast. Not a word to each other ; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride for stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened...
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