 | University magazine - 1850 - 816 pages
...star falling from the clime he had gained — all, all, is exquisitely beautiful : — " EXCKLSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, As through...'Excelsior!' " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath F!a.-hed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...— all, all, is exquisitely beautiful: — " EXCELSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast, AB -8 * !Zi9c 1 B Ya #cA " % %LP j E M... k :iy ل +6ndwFهHO M y ) S d J *( a % 8NC falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents ofthat unknown tongue — 1 Excelsior... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...beautifully represented under the figure of a noble youth, climbing the lofty Alps at the close of day.] 1. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...ice, A banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 2. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...light of a star falling from the clime he had gained — all, all, is exquisitely beautiful: — " EXCELSIOR. " The shades of night were falling fast,...'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — 1 Excelsior !' " His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...work alone ; For, while the worlds about the sun revolve, God's heart and mind are ever with his own. EXCELSIOR! The shades of night were falling fast,...youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with this strange device— Excelsior ! His brow was sad—his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse !" EXCELSIOR. ENGRAVED BY W. HUMPHRYS. 1 A V" nh who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior !" Miftiilaneous Forms, p. 76. NUREMBERG, DER SCHOEN BRUNNEN. ENGRAVED BY W. HUMPHRYS. 1 Everywhere... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...house became more a scene of real business, than ol airy display and angry vituperation. ANOXTMOOS. " EXCELSIOR " THE shades of night were falling fast,...His brow was sad ; his eye, beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its gheutli • And like a silver clarion rung The accents 6f that unknown tongue, "Excelsior!"... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...seal ; And 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...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And lite a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...may not roam, — For Hea\en's own glory shines around thy home. LESSON LV1II. Excelsior. LONGFELLOW. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Elocution - 1851 - 328 pages
...that haunts me yet Of Patience nursing Hope — the angel and the child ! " EXCELSIOR. HW LONGFELLOW. THE shades of night were falling fast, As through...His brow was sad ; his eye, beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior... | |
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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 ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver... 
