 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...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 10edited by - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...TTTR shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device — Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...EXCELSIOK. The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flash'd like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village pass'd A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner, with the strange device, "Excelsior!" His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Plashed like a falchion from its sheath ; And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with this strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a faulchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue. Excelsior... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...the clouds and beyond the tomb, It is there, it is there, my child ! " EXCELSIOR.— Longfellow. 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...but grief and woe Are hid those rosy depths below. 149 HENRY WADSWOBTH LONGFELLOW. EXCELSIOR.« THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A tanner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath,... | |
 | James Roscoe Mongan - 1864 - 300 pages
...bass of Pompey's statue, Which all the while ran blood, great Csesar fell. — Shakespeare. 10 The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed, ' A youth who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with this strange device Excelsior ! — Longfellow. 11. The people of... | |
 | 1884 - 648 pages
...>3афе тф! ebenfo lb,re Гот1|фе Seite! bie brei 3Iiifaugeftropb,cn beê ®ebi$tcê felbft: l. 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, Kxcelsior! 2. His brow was sad: his eye beneath... | |
 | Jacques Ducharme - Farmers - 1939 - 320 pages
..."Excelsior," and Cecile coached her child: "Encore une fois, Marie." And the child declaimed haltingly: "The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth who bore — " "Mid snow . . ." prompted Jean Baptiste, looking over his wife's shoulder, and then smiling at... | |
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