THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Hebrew Melodies - 46 ÆäÀÌÁöÀúÀÚ: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1815 - 53 ÆäÀÌÁöÀüüº¸±â - µµ¼ Á¤º¸
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...3:16-17). The Destruction of Sennacherib By George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen:... | |
 | Stephen Fry - 2006 - 396 ÆäÀÌÁö
...AND MARK THE ANAPAESTS HERE (Assyrian is three syllables, by the way, not four): The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen on their spears was like stars on the sea, And the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Byron doesn't... | |
 | Charles S. Maier - 2006 - 396 ÆäÀÌÁö
...Senacherib's unsuccessful siege of Jerusalem — his hubris dashed by pestilence: "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." But Jerusalem was spared only for a little more than a century, and it was exceptional: Babylon fell... | |
 | M. G. Easton - 2006 - 757 ÆäÀÌÁö
...of in the Assyrian annals. The scene is thus depicted by the English poet :-— " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with pnrple end gold Like the leave» of the forest when summer is That host with their banners at... | |
 | Meaghan Morris - 2006 - 270 ÆäÀÌÁö
...noise warps my reading, as a restless schoolchild within me drones, 'The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold'12 - and, since boredom is catching, I prefer to work with other plateaus first. There is nothing... | |
 | Paterika Hengreaves - 2007 - 201 ÆäÀÌÁö
...chronicled in 2 Kings 18-19 of the Bible. Below are two stanzas from Lord Bryon's poem. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee, Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen;... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 2007 - 232 ÆäÀÌÁö
...Sennacherib, celebrated by Byron in a famous poem (inspired by another passage in Isaiah): The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. A chariot attack must have been an awesome sight, and the sound too must have been overwhelming. Chariots... | |
 | Susan Wise Bauer - 2007 - 897 ÆäÀÌÁö
...success of his military career — that most English-speaking students remember. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. . . . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as... | |
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...been regarded as very good in Dutch Flat. I give a specimen verse : " The Assyrian came down, like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of his spears shone like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." There, that... | |
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...been regarded as very good in Dutch Flat. I give a specimen verse : " The Assyrian came down, like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of his spears shone like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." There, that... | |
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