They had found each other foemen worthy of their steel.

Round Shab Fuad desolate and grand, Till Ere with hate the hero did behold, Hast'ning to sweep the foemen from the land, His sword flash'd red and radiant in his hand, In sunny splendour was his spear upraised, And hovering o'er his head the light of heroes blazed He comes!

The downfall, exile, and death of his brother-in-law in 874 must have warned Alfred, if he had any need of warning, that no treaty could bind these foemen, and that he had nothing to look for but the same measure as soon as the pagan leaders felt themselves strong enough to mete it out to him and Wessex.

Another clubs a recalcitrant foeman over the head with a knobkerry, and having thus reduced him to a more amenable frame of mind, hoists him over the parapet and drags him after his "kamarad.

All the king's foes he counted his foemen; His not to say that a cause could be lost; Spirits like his faced the enemies' bowmen On long vanished fieldsnor counted the cost.

By the weight of that first blow he knew that he had encountered a worthy foeman, and by the position of Cartwright he could tell that he had met a confident one.

Chorus: Come, all my hearties, &c. In sixty-one this daring youth commenced his wild career, With a heart that knew no danger, no foeman did he fear.

My heart leaped with joy and pride at the sight of them, those great, gray guardians of the British shores, bulwarks of steel that fend all foemen from the rugged coast and the fair land that lies behind it.

The strength whereby The patriot girds himself to die; The unconquerable power which fills The foeman battling on his hills: These have one fountain deep and clear, The same whence gush'd that child-like tear!

The stripling and the man of years, Warriors with twice ten thousand spears, Peasants and slaves and husbandmen, The shepherd from his mountain glen, Vassal, and chief arrayed in gold And purple robesPhilistines all Are drawn together to behold Their mighty foeman held in thrall.

Then Finn arose From deep and sleepless brooding o'er his woes, And spake unto the Fians, "Who shall rest While flees our evil foeman farther west? Arise!" ...

So many those that hate him, and so strong, So few his knights, however brave they be Hath body enow to hold his foeman down?' 'O King,' she cried, 'and I will tell thee: few, Few, but all brave, all of one mind with him;

Men have died that men might live: Look every foeman in the eye!

The Colorado, California, and Oregon regiments, the Regulars, and all the batteries of the Second Brigade showed such zeal that it seems a pity that they did not meet foemen worthy of their steel.

Let it not be thought that he approached this moment with a fallen heart, and with a cringing, snaky feeling as a man might be expected to feel when he approached to murder a sleeping foeman.

He saw the foemen, moving slow In serried legions, far below, Against that peasant-band, Who dared to break the tyrant's thrall And by the sword of Austria fall, Or keep the ancient Right of all, Held by their mountain-land; They came to meet that mail-clad host From glen and wood and ripening field; A brave, stout arm, each man could boast A soul, unused to yield!

a sail!" Brace high each nerve to dare the fight, And boldly steer to seek the foeman; One secret prayer to aid the right, And many a secret thought to woman Now spread the flutt'ring canvas wide, And dash the foaming sea aside; The cry's, "A sail!

Why, in each word that you have spoken, buds A victory that strikes the foeman low!

The power to beat a foeman back.