 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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... | |
 | Nehemiah Adams - 1871 - 176 pages
...1 2 That night-time drew on fast. 8 No matter for the cold. 4 He had a flag which was very curious. 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 1 In happy homes he... | |
 | William Osborn (schoolmaster) - 1871 - 114 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 I In happy homes he saw... | |
 | William Gardner (headmaster of St. Crysostom's sch, Liverpool.) - 1871 - 84 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,... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pages
...village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, "Excelsior I" 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 I" In happy homes he... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 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... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! 282 EXCESS. 283 Шэ d all my sins away. Dear dying Lamb ! Thy precious Blood Shall never lo And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue In happy homes he saw the light Of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 324 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... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 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... | |
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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... 
