 | Henry Montgomery - 1847 - 398 էջ
...chivalrous conduct on the bloody field he so well describes, that if his commanding general can " write as well as fight." he can fight as well as write....forest of bright bayonets gleamed fiercely in the sun ! Lo! Guanajuato's regiment !— Lo ! Puebla's boasted corps ! — And Guadalajara's chosen troops... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 414 էջ
...busy with his sickle red with blood. 8ant Anna boasted loudly that before two hours were past, Hi* lancers through Saltillo should pursue us thick and...the sun like sheets of silver shine ! With thousands after thousands, yea, with more than ten to one, A forest of bright bayonets gleam fiercely in the... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 422 էջ
...the Mississippi's flood, And the reaper, Death, was busy with his sickle red with bloodr Sant Anna boasted loudly that before two hours were past, His...lancers through Saltillo should pursue us thick and fumt „ On came his solid infantry, line marching after line ; Lo ! their great standards in the sun... | |
 | Henry Montgomery - 1850 - 522 էջ
...with blood. Santa Anta boasted loudly, that before two hours were past, His Innccrs through Siiltillo should pursue us thick and fast: On came his solid infantry, line marching after line; Lo! ths'ir great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine! With thousands upon thousands, yea,... | |
 | 1856 - 518 էջ
...the Mississippi's flood ; And the reaper, Death, was busy, with his sickle red with blood. Santa Anna boasted loudly, that before two hours were past, His...should pursue us thick and fast : On came his solid regiments, line marching after line ; Lo ! their great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 էջ
...were past, His lancers through Saltillo should pursue us thick and fast ; On came his solid regiments, line marching after line: Lo, their great standards...more than four to one, A forest of bright bayonets gleams fiercely in the sun. Upon them with your squadrons, May ! — Out leaps the flaming steel ;... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 էջ
...the Mississippi's flood, And the reaper, Death, was busy with his sickle red with blood. Santa Anna boasted loudly, that, before two hours were past,...should pursue us thick and fast ; On came his solid regiments, line marching after line ; Lo, their great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine:... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 էջ
...the Mississippi's flood; [with blood. And the reaper, Death, was busy, with his sickle red Santa Anna first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplexed...deeds, At last lie beat his music out. There lives more regiments, line marching after line ; Lo ! their great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 էջ
...Mississippi's flood ; [with blood. And the reaper, Death, was busy, with his sickle red Santa Anna boasted loudly that, before two hours were past, His...lancers through Saltillo should pursue us thick and fast : Ou came his solid régiments, lino marching after line ; Lo ! their great standards in the sun like... | |
 | 1886 - 552 էջ
...hail still showers: They falter, halt, retreat !— Hurrah ! the glorious day is ours I" Santa Anna boasted loudly that, before two hours were past, His...should pursue us thick and fast : On came his solid regiments, line marching after line; Lo! their great standards in the sun like sheets of silver shine!... | |
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... have met the enemy again. Beneath their stern old mountains we have met them in their pride, And rolled from Buena Vista back the battle's bloody tide ; Where the enemy came surging, like the Mississippi's flood, And the reaper Death was busy, with... 
