Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 422
rize,Gainst whom not valiant Diomede,Nor Peleus Lariss«an^ seed,Nor ten years fighting could prevail,Nor navies of a thousand sail. But ghastlier portents lay behind,Our unprophetic souls to bind.Laocoon, named as Neptunes priest.Was offering up the victim beast,When lo! from Tenedos—I quail,Een… … t^ ■^ k The Wooden Horse 395 Amid the waves they rear their breasts, And toss on high their sanguine erests: The hind part coils along the deep, And undulates ^Wth sinuous sweep. The lashed spray echoes: now they reach The inland belted bj^ the beach, And rolling bloodshot eyes of fire, Dart their…
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