Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 21
,Sunburnt hordes from Libyan deserts—Sennar, Kordofan, Darfur —Stood the soldiers of the prophet on the rolling plain of Tours; Splendid with the spoils of conquest in a hundred battles won —Gems from Gothic monasteries, silks in far Damascus spun;Golden crescents on their turbans glittered in the… … THE BALLAD OF CHARLES MARTEL. Courage! cried the Christian chieftain. Let him die whose cheek shall pale!Right is ours, and God will help us — if we fight we cannot fail! And the sturdy Frankish warriors hewed their way through Moslem mail. Lo! the Ameer Abd-er-Rahman lies among his thousands…
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