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 448
; For suddenly all histhoughts are bent On a shadowy some-thing far away, Where the river widensto meet the bay,— A line of black thatbends and floats On the rising tide, likea bridge of boats. Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,Booted and spurred, with a heavy strideOn the opposite shore… … The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and sombre and still. And lo ! as he looks, on the belfrys height . A glimmer, and then a gleam of light! He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns, But lingers and gazes, till full on his…
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