 We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 136edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 186 pages
...comrades. * We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind ; All night I heard them on the track, Their troop came...they followed on, Nor left us with the morning sun. Behind I saw them scarce a rood, At daybreak, winding through the wood ; And through the night had... | |
 | Boy - 1884 - 156 pages
...through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind ; By night I heard them in the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With...they followed on, Nor left us with the morning sun ; Behind I saw them, scarce a rood, At daybreak winding through the wood, And through the night had... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...loose my hold. We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind ; By night I heard them on the track, — Their troop...deep hate, and hunter's fire : Where'er we flew they follow'd on, Nor left us with the morning sun ; — Behind I saw them, scarce a rood, At daybreak winding... | |
 | Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 pages
...loose my hold. 85 We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind ; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came...upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire 90 The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire : Where'er we flew they follow'd on, Nor left us with the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 284 pages
...loose my hold. We rustled through the leaves like wind, Lelt shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind ; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came...deep hate, and hunter's fire : Where'er we flew they follow'd on, Nor left us with the morning sun ; Behind I saw them, scarce a rood, At day-break winding... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - Animals, Legends and stories of - 1885 - 350 pages
...heard of Mazeppa, bound naked upon a wild Tartar steed, and hunted across the desert by wolves — " With their long gallop which can tire The hound's...they followed on, Nor left us with the morning sun ; Behind I saw them, scarce a rood, At daybreak winding through the wood, And through the night had... | |
 | Swiss boy - 1885 - 158 pages
...forward, and sharp white fangs unsheathed, untiringly and unrelentingly, like a haunting Fate, With his long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate and hunter's fire. But there is no leisure for moralising now; for the wolves are already almost level with our sledge,... | |
 | Abraham Firth - Education - 1886 - 394 pages
...the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind ; By night I heard them on the track, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's...they followed on, Nor left us with the morning sun : Behind I saw them, scarce a rood, At daybreak winding through the wood, And through the night had... | |
 | 1887 - 410 pages
...loose my hold. We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track. Their troop came...hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tiro The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire; Where'er we flew they follow'd on, Nor left us with... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...to loose my hold. We rustled through the leaves like wind. Left shrubs and trees and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came...they followed on, Nor left us with the morning sun; Behind I saw them, scarce a rood, At daybreak winding through the wood, And through the night had heard... | |
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