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Updated: June 6, 2025
In an agony of horrible dread, they rushed hither and thither about the court, where now the white horse, as steady as marble, should be when first they crossed it, was, to their excited vision, prancing wildly about the great basin from whose charmed circle he could not break, foaming, at the mouth, and casting huge water-jets from his nostrils into the perturbed air; while from the surface of the moat a great column of water shot up nearly as high as the citadel, whose return into the moat was like a tempest, and with all the elemental tumult was mingled the howling of wild beasts.
Just as we were crossing his bows, however, and had got his masts in tone by which time he had drawn considerably nearer us the brig fell off a little, not to repeat her former error, and again came the flash, the smoke, and the ringing report. "Here it comes straight for us this time, and no mistake," exclaimed Bob, as the water-jets again marked the course of the shot.
Nor lacks it gallant music to cheer it on its way, Nor flap of flame-tongued banner, like the Oriflamme of old, Its vanward cohorts heralding, in crimson, green, and gold. The engines now are ranged a-row hark, how they sob and pant! How gallantly the water-jets curve soaringly aslant!
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