 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 362 pages
...him to the gallows ; a quatrain of this closing part of the satire runs thus : "And now I Ve closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this...warrior-drover Wayne Should ever catch the poet." Rivington was himself a man of parts — had been stationer, jockey, racing-man in England —a high-liver,... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - Poetry - 1908 - 748 pages
...prog, His military speeches, His corn-stalk whiskey for his grog, Blue stockings and brown breeches. And now I 've clos'd my epic strain, I tremble as...warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet. JOHN ANDR£. The last stanza was singularly prophetic. The Americans relied for the defence of the... | |
 | William Bradley Otis - American poetry - 1909 - 334 pages
...no doubt have achieved considerable distinction. The last stanza is prophetic: "And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this...warrior-drover Wayne, Should ever catch the poet." The poem was originally published in Rivington's Royal Gazette, on the very morning of the day on which... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) - 1912 - 310 pages
...interesting from the coincidence connected with the last verse, which runs thus: And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrto-drover Wayne Should ever catch the poet. On the day this was printed, in Rivington's Gazette,... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 1058 pages
...tribe." The last verse, however, shows that he was not without the gift of prophecy. "And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this...warrior-drover Wayne, Should ever catch the poet." The last canto was published on the day of his captu The original copy is still in existence, and has... | |
 | Frederic Jesup Stimson - United States - 1917 - 654 pages
..."Cow Chase", the very next month took custody of John Andre", caught near Tappan: "And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it; Lest this...same warrior-drover Wayne Should ever catch the poet ! " Perhaps it was in consequence — or in spite of? — this epic that Andre" was formally, on the... | |
 | Trust company of New Jersey (Jersey City) - Bergen (Jersey City, N.J.) - 1921 - 74 pages
...Unconscious in the stall What mighty means were used to get And lose them after all. * * * * # And now I've clos'd my epic strain I tremble as I show it, Lest...warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet." The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 'HE first important changes in Bergen and its surrounding territory... | |
 | Sports - 1906 - 924 pages
...capture cf the kine with what might be deemed an ominous hint of his own capture: "And now I've closed my epic strain. I tremble as I show it, Lest this...warrior-drover Wayne Should ever catch the poet." Comwallis' main army with a small detachment, and so saved Lafayette from complete disaster. He was... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - United States - 1924 - 150 pages
...repeated the last lines to me. Let me recall how they went! Ah, I have it. [Recites.] "And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it; Lest this...warrior-drover Wayne Should ever catch the poet." CASPAR [at the open door]. A Moor iss goming ub to our house. PEGGY. A what? BEIDGET [peeping out of... | |
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And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet. 
