Where far the Asian lowland spreads, and by Cayster's flow, Freely on joyful pinions sail, and wander to and fro, And with their clanging wings loud rings the mead where they alight ; Thus swarmed the Greeks from ship and tent, to find the fateful fight... John Stuart Blackie: A Biography - Page 25by Anna M. Stoddart - 1895Full view - About this book
| John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 476 pages
...cranes, or the long-necked race of iiii) swans, Where far the Asian lowland spreads, and by Ciiyster's flow, Freely on joyful pinions sail, and wander to...plain : and earth rebellowed to the sound, As the mail clad men, and the four-hoofed horse tramped o'er tiM' hollow ground, Till on the broad grass mead... | |
| John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 424 pages
...cranes, or the long-necked race of swans, 4B" Where far the Asian lowland spreads, and by Ciiyster's flow, Freely on joyful pinions sail, and wander to...ship and tent, to find the fateful fight Far o'er Rcamander's plain : and earth rebellowed to the sound, As the mail-clad men, and the four-hoofed horse... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1868 - 868 pages
...lances. And as the uncounted tribes that scour the sky with mighty vans Of geese or vagrant-banded cranes, or the long-necked race of swans, Where far...Greeks from ship and tent, to find the fateful fight. Professor Blackie spoils his child seems to delight in these qualities, by indulgence. The fourteen-syl-... | |
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