 | 1912 - 350 sider
...lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns ! A hurry of hoofs in the village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that... | |
 | 1911 - 592 sider
...good news from Ghent to Aix,' or even Longfellow's national ballad of 'Paul Bevere's •Bide't— ' A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet. That was all ! And yet through the gloom and the light The fate of a nation was riding that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 260 sider
...the hour, and the secret dread Of the lonely belfry and the dead; For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away, Where the river...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet; That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 310 sider
...the hour, and the secret dread Of the lonely belfry and the dead ; For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away, Where the river...dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a $park Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 sider
...till full on his sight A second lamp in the- battiy trarni 1 9 A. hurry of hoofs in a village-street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And...pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed that flies fearless and fleet : That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and The fate of a nation... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 232 sider
...the hour, and the secret dread Of the lonely belfry and the dead ; For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away, Where the river...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 254 sider
...bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second lamp in the belfry burns ! T A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! ' And . jet, through the gloom and the light, • The fate of a nation was riding... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 sider
...the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight A second Limp in the belfry bumsl A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that... | |
 | 1864 - 568 sider
...a bridge of boats. Then the watchman hangs the signal-lights in the belfry, and there comes A hnrry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight,...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 sider
...And turned and tightened his saddlegirth ; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves...a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that... | |
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Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill. Lonely and spectral and sombre and still. And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full... 
