This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...horns blew clear, The banners swayed In rhythmic movements where they hung; All things were set To melody, --to music strung, And yet, and yet, What minor chord was that he heard, --The gallant host? Beneath the banners where they stirred What shadowy ghost Was that he saw, defiant, grim, Step darkly down To ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...horns blew clear, The banners swayed In rhythmic movements where they hung; All things were set To melody, --to music strung, And yet, and yet, What minor chord was that he heard, --The gallant host? Beneath the banners where they stirred What shadowy ghost Was that he saw, defiant, grim, Step darkly down To mock the scene, and menace him With warning frown, While still they planned, " next week, next year, ' His careless guests? They saw no ghost, they felt no fear, Why stop their jests Who held beneath King George's crown The royal right To hold and rule King George's town By loyal might? " Next week, next year;" and while they spoke, Across the hum Of horns and fiddles bluntly broke A rolling drum That beat to arms the " rabble rout" They did disdain. " Next week, next year,"--the year ran out And out again, And through and through King George's towns, From east to west, From north to south, the drum-beat drowns The idle jest On Tory lips. The rabble rout Rise fast and far; They follow on with cheer and shout The morning star Of victory's dawn. " Next week, next year! " Their cry rings down, " We bend no more with cringing fear 'Neath George's crown! " Behind her fan of peacock plumes The Tory dame Makes no more plans, no more assumes To ban with shame The "rabble rout" she once disdained; While he, her host Who under George's banners reigned, Recalls the ghost That once upon a festal night, Defiant, grim, Stepped darkly down athwart the light To menace him! THE CHRISTMAS GALE. BLIND and bitter the storm beat down: Through the streets of the little town Women and men went hurrying fast, Their troubled glance on the splintered mast That pitched and tossed just off the shore Where rocks were sharp and the tempest tore In fiercer wrath the...
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