Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 240
lance, and helm, and greaves, The faery armor hung thereby. vm.Flashed wide the chargers brazen eyes; All fleshly warm the metal grew ;His mane began to stir and rise ; A single struggling breath he drew ;Through swelling veins his blood did run ; . Sir Urgan felt his pulses beat,He reared — he… … All mute upon the statue stared Sir Urgan: By my faith ! he cried,An thou hadst life, I had not cared To find a nobler steed to ride.Who rides thee, conquers! Then in haste He cast his mail upon the gorse ;Soon, in the rusty armor laced, He vaulted on the brazen horse. As past the flouting knights…
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