With foam and with dust the black charger was gray; By the flash of his eye, and his red nostrils' play,

He seemed to the whole great army to say,

'I have brought you Sheridan all the way

From Winchester down to save the day!'

Hurrah, hurrah, for Sheridan!

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Hurrah, hurrah, for horse and man!

And when their statues are placed on high,
Under the dome of the Union sky,
The American soldiers' Temple of Fame,
There, with the glorious general's name,
Be it said, in letters bold and bright,
'Here is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,

From Winchester-twenty miles away!'

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BALLAD OF AGINCOURT°

MICHAEL DRAYTON

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563–1631) was born in London, and his name is intimately associated with those of many of the great poets and dramatists of the Elizabethan age. He wrote a large body of verse little read now except by students of literature. The 'Polyolbion,' 'a description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests, and all other parts of Great Britain,' is his largest and most important work, though the very fine 'Ballad of Agincourt' is far better poetry and a much greater favorite with lovers of literature.

FAIR stood the wind for France,

When we our sails advance,

When down their bows they threw,
And forth their bilbows° drew,

And on the French they flew,

Not one was tardy;