Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 479
ates, and I told them all the tale,And I bade them carry weapons, stick and saber, stone and flail. And we thus come out to meet you, and to die, if need must be,As the band of noble Spartans died at old Thermopylae. Not a word the chieftain answered, but he turned his horses feet,And he bade the… … So, in token of surrender over all the troops that pass,Here I yield to you, 0 Captain! Take the sword, Leonidas! Then, saluting low his captor, turned the chief his bridle-rein,And ere long the Turkish squadron was a dust-cloud on the plain.
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