 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...horse without peer, — Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 298 pages
...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer — Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad 01 good, Till... | |
 | 1876 - 216 pages
...each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrups, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet name,...horse without peer — Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pages
...for his eye-sockets' rim. saddle. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster * let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without fear; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good — Till... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...circles of red for his eye-socket's rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland hia pet name, my horse without peer, — Clapped my hands, laughed and sung, any noise, bad or good,... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1878 - 232 pages
...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast my loose buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer ;u Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...circles of red for his eye-sockets' rim. Then I cast loose my buff-coat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up...stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till... | |
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Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets 
