 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those behind cried " Forward I " And those before cried "Back. 1 " And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array ; And on the... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. per Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the three, And they gave him greeting loud :... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 322 pages
...the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. L. Was none wh } would be foremost To lead such dire attack ; But those...behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried " Back 1" And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array ; And on the tossing sea of steel, To and fro... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Sermons, English - 1873 - 400 pages
...to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. " Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack : But those behind cried ' Forward 1 ' And those before cried ' Back ! ' And backward now and forward Wavers the deep array ; And on the... | |
 | Thomas Pope (canon of Castleknock.) - 1874 - 458 pages
...Soliman and Saladin : they move on for the delivery of Jerusalem, and then FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. " Wavers the deep array, And on the tossing sea of steel,...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away". But in Kome the visitor finds fact stranger than fiction, and the present scenes stranger than the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Anthologies - 1875 - 240 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the Three, And they gave him greeting loud.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1875 - 752 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. LI. Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the Three, And... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...cried " Forward ! ' And those before cried " Back ! " 335 Wavers the deep array ; And on the tossing sea of steel To and fro the standards reel, And... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack...And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfully away. f Yet one man for one moment Strode out before the crowd ; Well known was he to all the three, And... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1876 - 418 pages
...the mouth of the dark lair, Where, growling low, a fierce old bear, , Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost, To lead such dire...standards reel; { And the victorious trumpet-peal Dies fitfiUly away. But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied ; And now the bridge hangs tottering... | |
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... earth the bloody corpses, In the path the dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low,... 
