 | 1838 - 588 pages
...retainer arm with speed — call every vassal in ; Up with my banner on the wall — the banquet-board prepare, Throw wide the portal of my hall, and bring my armor there!' An hundred hands were busy then ; the banquet forth was spread, And rang the heavy oaken floor with many a martial tread ; While... | |
 | Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - History - 1841 - 376 pages
...Bid each retainer arm with speed, — call every vassal in, Up with my banner on the wall, — the banquet board prepare,— Throw wide the portal of...bring my armor there !" An hundred hands were busy then, — the banquet forth was spread, — > And rung the heavy oaken floor with many a martial tread,... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1841 - 408 pages
...Bid each retainer arm with speed, — call every vassal in, Up with my banner on the wall, — the banquet board prepare, — Throw wide the portal of...bring my armor there!' An hundred hands were busy then, — the banquet forth was spread, — And rang the heavy oaken floor with many a martial tread,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 600 pages
...Bid each retainer arm with speed, — call every vassal in, Up with my banner on the wall, — the banquet board prepare, — Throw wide the portal of my hall, and bring my armour there ! ' •• A hundred hands were busy then, — the banquet forth was spread, — And rung... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...Bid each retainer arm with speed, — call every vassal in, Up with my banner on the wall, — the banquet board prepare, — Throw wide the portal of my hall, and bring my armour there ! ' u A hundred hands were busy then, — the banquet forth was spread, — And rung the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...Bid each retainer arm with speed, — Call every vassal in ; Up with my banner on the wall, — The banquet board prepare, — Throw wide the portal of my hall, And bring my armour there !" A hundred hands were busy then, — The banquet forth was spread, — And rung the... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...each retainer arm with speed, — call every vassal in, — Up with my banner on the wall, — the banquet board prepare, — Throw wide the portal of my hall, and bring my armor there !" A hundred hands were busy then, — the banquet forth was spread, And rang the heavy oaken floor... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...— call every vassal in, Up with my banner on the wall, — the banquet board prepare,— Throw wiJe the portal of my hall, and bring my armor there !'' An hundred hands were busy then, — the banquet fiirth was spread, And rung— th« heavy oaken flonr, with many a martial tread... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...retainer—arm with speed,—nil every weal in, Up with my banner on the wall,—the banquet bnard prepare^— Throw wide the portal of my hall, and bring my armor there !" An bunlrnJ handi were buiy (ben,—the banquet forth was spread, And rung—the heavy oaken flVr, with... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - American literature - 1846 - 366 pages
...Bid each retainer arm with speed, — call every vassal in, Up with my banner on the wall, — the banquet board prepare,— Throw wide the portal of...bring my armor there !" An hundred hands were busy then, — the banquet forth was spread, — And rung the heavy oaken floor with many a martial tread,... | |
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And rung the heavy oaken floor with many a martial tread; While from the rich, dark tracery, along the vaulted wall, Lights gleamed on harness, plume, and spear, o'er the proud old Gothic hall. 
