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Page 38
... rode a figure whose stately head O'erlooked the review that morning , That never bowed from its firm - set seat When the living column passed its feet , Yet now rode steadily up the street To the phantom bugle's warning . Till it ...
... rode a figure whose stately head O'erlooked the review that morning , That never bowed from its firm - set seat When the living column passed its feet , Yet now rode steadily up the street To the phantom bugle's warning . Till it ...
Page 50
... rode through his native town : But held his own in the fight next day , When all his townsfolk ran away . That was in July sixty - three , The very day that General Lee , Flower of Southern chivalry , Baffled and beaten , backward ...
... rode through his native town : But held his own in the fight next day , When all his townsfolk ran away . That was in July sixty - three , The very day that General Lee , Flower of Southern chivalry , Baffled and beaten , backward ...
Page 80
... Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death 66 Rode the six hundred . Forward , the Light Brigade ! " Was there a man dismay'd ? Not tho ' the soldier knew Some one ...
... Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death 66 Rode the six hundred . Forward , the Light Brigade ! " Was there a man dismay'd ? Not tho ' the soldier knew Some one ...
Page 81
... rode and well , Into the jaws of Death , Into the mouth of Hell , Rode the six hundred . Flash'd all their sabres bare , Flash'd as they turned in air , Sabring the gunners there , Charging an army , while All the world wonder'd ...
... rode and well , Into the jaws of Death , Into the mouth of Hell , Rode the six hundred . Flash'd all their sabres bare , Flash'd as they turned in air , Sabring the gunners there , Charging an army , while All the world wonder'd ...
Page 107
... rode amain , Follow'd by all the archer train , The fiery youth , with desperate charge , Made , for a space , an opening large , — The rescued banner rose , — But darkly closed the war around , Like pine - tree , rooted from the ground ...
... rode amain , Follow'd by all the archer train , The fiery youth , with desperate charge , Made , for a space , an opening large , — The rescued banner rose , — But darkly closed the war around , Like pine - tree , rooted from the ground ...
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