Ground
Ground
Ground
winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful
vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a
moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a
strong man hand has reclaimed- even so were the dense phalanxes of the
Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus Eurypylus gave him chase as he was
flying before him, smote him with his sword upon the arm, and lopped his strong
hand from off it. The bloody hand fell to the or the Trojans. He rushed across the
plain like a
lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now.
Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler,
schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker,
preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft or
Haste you can hear the boys are dreaming and the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.
paused on the one cloud of the roofs before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound
, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
To begin at the beginning: The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night
organplaying wood. wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the jollyrogered sea. And the
anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the
wet-nosed yards; and the nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling,.
glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the
organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the
jollyrogered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the
byres, and the dogs in the wet-nosed yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly,
streaking and needling, on the one cloud of the roofs.
Eurypylus, son of Euaemon, killed Hypsenor, the son of noble Dolopion, who
had been made priest of the river Scamander, and was honoured among the