 | 1897 - 404 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops. > What was done? What to do? a glance told him both; Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath He dashed...huzzas. And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause, With foam, and with dust the black charger... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops : What was done ? what to do ? a glance told him both ; Then, striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed...huzzas ; And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | 1864 - 744 pages
...was done — what to do — a glance told him Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath. Bedashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzas. And the wave of retreat checked its course there because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dost the black charger... | |
 | 1865 - 594 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops. What was done ? What to do* A glance told him both ; Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the Leader compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | Thomas Buchanan Read - 1865 - 184 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops, What was done ? what to do ? a glance told him both, Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust, the black charger... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pages
...General saw were the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops ; What was done — what to do — a glance told him both, And striking his spurs...terrible oath, He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of huzzahs, And the wave of retreat checked its course there because The sight of the master compelled... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1865 - 778 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops ;— What was done—what to do—a glance told him both, Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed down the line ' rnid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there because Ihe sight of the... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops; What was done — what to do — a glance told him both. Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath He dashed...huzzas And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | George Whitefield Powers - 1866 - 334 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops. What was done — what to do — a glance told him both ; Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath, He dashed...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1866 - 654 pages
...stragglers, and then the retreating troops. What was done — what to do — a glance told him both; Then, striking his spurs, with a terrible oath, He dashed...huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger... | |
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mid a storm of huzzas, And the wave of retreat checked its course there, because The sight of the master compelled it to pause. With foam and with dust the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play, He seemed to the whole... 
