Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 523
,Ugly and black, like a giants hand, lopped short from a giants wrist.Then high his spear did the knight uprear, and fast he rode to the wood,Where under the blasted oak, close bound, the martyr princess stood.She heard the tramp of his horses hoofs ; she deemed the dragon drew near.She pressed her… … For I know, sweet fellow-Christian, by the wonders wrought to-day, That I bring thee good deliverance,—and shall the dragon slay. She heard his words; her heart beat fast; she gazed at his lion-crest, And joy and surprise came into her eyes, as she saw the Cross on his breast- But loud through the…
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