 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward Tho pious monks of Saint Bernard Ctter'd the oft -repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half buried in the enow was found, Still grasping in his hand of iee That banner with the strange device,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...replied, far up the height, Excelsior ! At hreak of day, as heavenward Xhe pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior ! A traveller, hy the faithful hound, Half-huried in the snow was found, Still graspmg in his hand of ice That hanner... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Readers and speakers - 1865 - 300 pages
...replied, far up the height, EXCELSIOR ! 7. At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of St. Bernard8 Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried, through the startled air, EXCELSIOR ! •Clar'ion, a wind instrument suited to war. — *Spic'tral, relating to atl apparition, or the... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...replied, far up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through...device, Excelsior ! There, in the twilight cold and grey, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll) - 1866 - 142 pages
...up the height, " Excelsior!" At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Utter'd the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the...That banner with the strange device— " Excelsior I " BRTANT. THE AFRICAN CHIEF. CHAIN'D in the market-place he stood, A man of giant frame, Amid the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poetry - 1866 - 300 pages
...avalanche ! " This was the peasant's last Good-night, A voice replied, far up the height, Excelsior ! Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through...Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping iu his hand of ice That banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! There ia the twilight cold and... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...In Tain for me. SOLEMNITY, TRAKQUIUJTT, AND PATHOS. A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow was found, — Still grasping in his hand...Ice That banner with the strange device, "Excelsior I" There,— In the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful he lay;— And from the nky, serene... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1866 - 174 pages
...height, "Excelsior!" At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered their oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled..."Excelsior!" A traveller, — by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device,... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...replied, far up the height, Excelsior! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of St. Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried, through the startled air, Excelsior! A traveler,—by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow, was found, Still grasping, in his hand... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 pages
...replied far up the height, Excelsior ! At break of day, as heavenward The pious monks of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior I A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was found, Still grasping in his hand... | |
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There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like a falling star — Excelsior! 
