 ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her...  Annual Register - Page 808edited by - 1803Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden showed another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. By torch and trumpet-sound arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle-blade ; And furious every charger neighed, To... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. 135 By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every charger... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 2. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night. Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her s»enery. 3. By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of hur scenery. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious every... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every charger neighed, To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steed to battle driven, And louder than the bolts of heaven Far flashed the red artillery.... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...dark as winter, was the flow Of lier, rolling rapidly. 2. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darknes of her scenery. 3. By torch and trumpet, fast array'd, Each warrior drew his battle-blade,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser rolling rapidly. 2 But Linden saw another sight, (<) When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. 3 By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each warrior drew his battle blade, And furious every charger... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...winter was the flow' Of Iser'd rolling rapidly'. But' . . Linden0 saw another sight', When the drum beat', at dead of night', Commanding fires of death,...darkness of her scenery'. By torch and trumpet' . . fast arrayed', Each horseman0 drew his battle-blade', And furious every charger neighed' To join the dreadful... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, roaring rapidly ! But Linden showed another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of the scenery By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death...scenery. By torch and trumpet fast array'd, Each horseman drew his battle-blade, And furious every charger neigh'd To join the dreadful revelry. Then shook the... | |
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