StoryTitle("caps", "A Steed! A Steed!") ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage102", "
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PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(101, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A steed! a steed! of matchless speed!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "A sword of metal keen!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All else to noble hearts is dross—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "All else on earth is mean.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The neighing of the war-horse proud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "The rolling of the drum,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clangor of the trumpet loud", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Be sounds from heaven that come.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, oh! the thundering press of knights,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "When as their war-cries swell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May tole from heaven an angel bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And rouse a fiend from hell.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then mount! then mount! brave gallants all,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And don your helms amain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Death's couriers, Fame and Honour, call", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Up to the field again;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No shrewish tear shall fill our eye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "When the sword hilt's in our hand;", "") ?>
PagePoem(102, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heart-whole we'll part and no whit sigh", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "For the fairest of the land.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let piping swain and craven wight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Thus weep and puling aye;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our business is like men to fight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "And like to Heroes, die", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>