utted stoutly at the obstacles in the roadway
was barely out of the youth's sight before he saw dark waves of men come
sweeping out of the woods and down through the fields. He knew at
once that the steel fibers had been washed from their hearts. They were
bursting from their coats and their equipments as from entanglements.
They charged down upon him like terrified buffaloes.
Behind them blue smoke curled and clouded above the treetopsand
through the thickets he could sometimes see a distant pink glare. The
voices of the cannon were clamoring in intermi- nable chorus.
The youth was horrorstricken. He stared in agony and amazement.
He forgot that he was engaged in combating the universe. He threw
aside his mental pamphlets on the philoso- phy of the retreated and rules
for the guidance of the damned.
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The fight was lost. The dragons were com- ing with invincible
strides. The armyhelpless in the matted thickets and blinded by the
over- hanging nightwas going to be swallowed. Warthe red animal
warthe blood-swollen godwould have bloated fill.
Within him something bade to cry out. He had the impulse to make a
rallying speechto sing a battle hymnbut he could only get his tongue to
call into the air: "Why--why--what--wha
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