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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... "
Evangeline: Courtship of Miles Standish. Favorite Poems - Page 37
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 95 pages
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Voices of the Night, and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...and ice, A banner with the strange device Excelsior ! ISO MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. His brow was sad; Ids eye beneath, 1 'lashed like a faulchion from its sheath,...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...and thought. EXCELSIOR. TKI shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; hia eye beneath Flash'd like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 27

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth who bare, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with this R > GF ۍ \ <Q bL М 2 hQ 9 $ ڃ d*UQ A L ]p= O+/ Q fuulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
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Poems, Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...that smile, like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
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The Swiss Reformer: Or, the Life of Ulric Zwingle

Daniel Wise - 1853 - 254 pages
...steadily at his post. Like the hero of a modern poet, if " His brow was sad, his eye beneath Flash'd like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that well-known tongue, Excelsior !" We have already seen him escape the plots and schemes of his adversaries...
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The National Magazine, Volume 3

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...that fly, Like chaff from the threshing-floor." " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like the falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue." " Throujfh the cloted blinds, the golden inn I'our'd in a dusty beam, Like the celestial ladder seen...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

1854 - 576 pages
...powers divine array him ; Behold ! He does but speak the word, 36. ENCEISIOR. —H. If. Longfsllaw. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falehion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
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Poems ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 504 pages
...like sunshine, dart Into many a sunless heart, For a smile of God thou art. EXCELSIOR. THE sjiades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
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Voices of the Night

John Cumming - 1854 - 296 pages
...restored, and Jesus shall be seen as he is, and we shall be like him. CHAPTER IX. " EXCEL SIOE." " The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...A banner with the strange device — 'Excelsior!' " ' Try not the pass,' the old man said, ' Dark lowers the tempest overhead, — The roaring torrent...
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Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volumes 1-2

James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...1851) I V-_ v- i - ; .'.•»" c EXCELSIOR: HELPS TO PROGRESS RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND LITEKATUKE. ' The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine...and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! " LONOf ELLOW. VOL. L NEW YOKE: ADF RANDOLPH, 683 BROADWAY. 1854. LONDON : Printed by G. BAICLAT,...
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