 Whitford, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof. For, lo ! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from...  The Port folio, by Oliver Oldschool - Page 415Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 pages
...below!" Nor notice give at all: The firemen, terrified, are slow . To bid the pumping torrent How, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins! Crump,...smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them frofti th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear'd, When lo! amid the wreck uprear'd... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 162 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof ! Whitford, keep near the walls...lo ! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder fairs ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 154 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof ! "Whitford, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof, For la! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 590 pages
...aloof! Wuitfprd, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own beboof, For lo ! the blazing tucking roof Down, down in thunder falls ! An awful pause...around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from, th astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile was clea^d, When lo ! amid the wreck uprear'd, Gradual... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...pumping torrent flow. For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Whitfprd, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof, For lo ! the Blazing locking roof Down, down in thunder falls ' An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed... | |
 | James Smith - 1841 - 224 pages
...pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof would fall. Back, Robins, back ; Crump, stand aloof ! Wbitford, keep near the walls ! Huggins, regard your own behoof,...blazing rocking roof Down, down, in thunder falls 1 An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud,... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1851 - 272 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof should fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof ! Whitford, keep near the walls...th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear' d, When, lo ! amid the wreck uprearM, Gradual a moving head appear'd, And Eagle firemen knew... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...roof should fall. Back. Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof! Wrhitford, keep near the walls ! Hugging, regard your own behoof, For, lo! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder fulls ! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 700 pages
...terrified are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow, For fear the roof would fall. Back, Robins, back; Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls...ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from th' astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile was cleared, When, lo! amid the... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...terrified, are slow To bid the pumping torrent flow For fear the roof would fall. Back, Robins, back ! Crump, stand aloof ! Whitford, keep near the walls...ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from th' astonished crowd. At length the mist awhile was cleared, When, lo ! amid the... | |
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