Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum ...

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Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1890 - 69 Seiten
 

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Seite 65 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Seite 6 - Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing ; and then they die, — Perish; and no one asks Who or what they have been, More than he asks what waves, In the moonlit solitudes mild Of the midmost Ocean, have swelled, Foamed for a moment, and gone.
Seite 55 - Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles — Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foil'd circuitous wanderer — till at last The long'd-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
Seite 62 - Why are ye come out to set your battle in array ? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul ? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants : but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
Seite 54 - Brimming and bright and large: then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents; that for many a league The shorn and...
Seite 53 - Soon be that day, my son, and deep that sea ! Till then, if fate so wills, let me endure.
Seite 42 - Hath trail'd the hunter's javelin in his side, And comes at night to die upon the sand. The two hosts heard that cry and quaked for fear, And Oxus curdled as it cross'd his stream.
Seite 53 - By Jemshid in Persepolis, to bear His house, now mid their broken flights of steps Lie prone, enormous, down the mountain side — So in the sand lay Rustum by his son.
Seite 34 - By sandy Bahrein, in the Persian Gulf, Plunging all day in the blue waves, at night, Having made up his tale of precious pearls, Rejoins her in their hut upon the sands — So dear to the pale Persians Rustum came.
Seite 27 - Where host meets host, and many names are sunk: But of a single combat Fame speaks clear.' He spoke: and Peran-Wisa took the hand Of the young man in his, and sigh'd, and said: — 'O Sohrab, an unquiet heart is thine!

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