StoryTitle("caps", "Sheridan's Ride ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up from the South, at break of day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bringing to Winchester, fresh dismay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The affrighted air with a shudder bore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Telling the battle was on once more,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Sheridan twenty miles away. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wider still those billows of war ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thundered along the horizon's bar, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And louder yet into Winchester rolled ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The roar of that red sea, uncontrolled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Making the blood of the listener cold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Sheridan twenty miles away.", "") ?>
PagePoem(159, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But there is a road to Winchester town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A good, broad highway, leading down; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there, through the flush of the morning light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A steed, as black as the steeds of night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was seen to pass as with eagle flight; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if he knew the terrible need,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He stretched away with his utmost speed. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hill rose and fell; but his heart was gay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Sheridan fifteen miles away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering south. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The heart of the steed and the heart of the master ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Impatient to be where the battle-field calls.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every nerve of the charger was strained to full play, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Sheridan only ten miles away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under his spurning feet the road ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the landscape sped away behind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like an ocean flying before the wind; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Swept on with his wild eyes full of fire. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lo! he is nearing his heart's desire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is snuffing the smoke of the roaring fray, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Sheridan only five miles away.", "") ?>
PagePoem(160, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The first that the General saw were the groups ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What was done—what to do—a glance told him both; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then striking his spurs, with a terrible oath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wave of retreat checked his course there, because ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sight of the master compelled it to pause.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With foam and with dust the black charger was gray. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the flash of his eye, and his red nostril's play", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He seemed to the whole great army to say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I have brought you Sheridan all the way ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From Winchester down to save you the day!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hurrah, hurrah, for Sheridan!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hurrah, hurrah, for horse and man!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when their statues are placed on high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the dome of the Union sky—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The American soldier's Temple of Fame,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, with the glorious General's name, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be it said in letters, bold and bright:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"Here is the steed that saved the day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By carrying Sheridan into the fight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From Winchester, twenty miles away!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "-T. Buchanan Reed") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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