 | 1842 - 694 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'midst snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue — Exceliier I In happy homes he... | |
 | 1842 - 682 pages
...vi!!-i<;c passed A youth, who bore, 'midsl snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue— Ezceliierl In happy homes he saw... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad, his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad, his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ! And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore,'mid snow and ice, A banner, with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad : his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung, The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior ! In happy homes he saw... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...Alpine village passed A youth, who bore 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its aheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! "Try not the... | |
 | 1849 - 472 pages
...the brightest prospects of success. He very much resembled the Alpine pedestrian of Longfellow : " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior !" He soon adopted the... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pages
...passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — 1 Excelsior !' " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue — ' Excelsior !' " In happy homes... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — ' Excelsior !' " nd ten thousand a-year (dollars, not pounds) to spend. He has not long ret ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents ofthat unknown tongue — 1 Excelsior !' " In happy homes... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 374 pages
...village passed A youth who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 2. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung 3. In happy homes, he saw the light, Of household fires, gleam warm... | |
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THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior... 
