 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 trang
...dastard flight ; — Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knigh As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed...Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from wasted lands, Sweep... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 trang
...serried phalanx tight, Groom fonght like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till ntter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and...Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they drew, As monntain-waves, from wasted lands, Sweep... | |
 | Edward Charlton - 1871 - 190 trang
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. NO thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage command Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 trang
...stepping where his comrade stood The moment that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skillful Surrey's wise commands Led back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 trang
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skillful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they... | |
 | James Hay - 1899 - 378 trang
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. * * * * Tradition, legend, tune, and song, Shall many an age the wail prolong : Still from the sire... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 370 trang
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing 20 O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1899 - 412 trang
...down the brave men, slaughtering on all sides, yet still unable to break through to the standard. ' Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King." Man by man the noble Saxons were hewn down as the Normans cut their way through them, no more able... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - 1899 - 390 trang
...wnere his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was theirs of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, Led back from strife his shattered bands, And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves from wasted... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 trang
...stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from wasted lands, Sweep... | |
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Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the... 
