Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 388
he river and past the moat,Drawbridge, ferry, and lagging boat;Swift they unhorsed them, each and all,And stood without a turreted wall.Through the postern, soldier and knight.Blades made ready and torches alight. Listen ! Only a maid was there,Flitting before them up the stair —The selfsame stair… … BLADES FLASHED HIGH IN THE TORCHES GLARE, A PROTECTING RING OER THAT MAIDEN THERE! Following whither that maiden bid,To where her good, gray lord was hid. Within those portals,— silence all.Torches wavered on cornice and hall. And they trembled — soldier, knight, andpage, But not the. maid.She…
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