The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 447
g wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war ; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar. And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide. Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street,Wanders and watches with eager… … Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church, By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread. To the belfry-chamber overhead. And startled the pigeons from their perch PAUL REVERES RIDE. 407 On the sombre rafters, that round Mm madeMasses and moving shapes of shade, —By the trembling ladder steep…
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