Excerpt from The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Selections in Prose and Poetry, Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic, for Readings and Recitations The evening sun has sunk full soon, Tinging the west with crimson and gold; But over each man's left Shoulder the moon Evil omen As e'er foretold To other foemen In da 8 Of Old Danger and deat in majesty Silently climbs the eastern sky. The moon behind, the stars shining o'er us, Shadows and darkness around; But we only know straight before us Are twenty miles of ground. 0 God! To think Of the terrible fate Awaiting that home if we come too late! TO think twenty miles and two hours hence May make such fearful difference! Ah, noble steeds, do all ye know That twenty miles we draw not rein, But after that ye shall rest again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.