. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ««*lj. ST. GERMAIN L AUXERROIS. 40 PARIS AND ITS STORY mkans omnes super urbes^ like a queenly city resplendentabove all towns. The second attack begins with redoubledfury. After battering the walls of the north tower,monstrous machines on sixteen wheels are advanced andthe besiegers strive to fill the fosse. Trees, shrubs,slaughtered cattle, wounded horses, the very captives slainbefore the eyes of the besieged, are cast in to fill the Gozlin brings down a Norman chieftain by a well-aimed arrow :
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . ««*lj. ST. GERMAIN L AUXERROIS. 40 PARIS AND ITS STORY mkans omnes super urbes^ like a queenly city resplendentabove all towns. The second attack begins with redoubledfury. After battering the walls of the north tower,monstrous machines on sixteen wheels are advanced andthe besiegers strive to fill the fosse. Trees, shrubs,slaughtered cattle, wounded horses, the very captives slainbefore the eyes of the besieged, are cast in to fill the Gozlin brings down a Norman chieftain by a well-aimed arrow : his body, too, is flung into the fosse. Theenemy cover the plain with their swords and the river withtheir bucklers. Fireships are loosed against the the city women fly to the sanctuaries : they roll theirhair in the dust, beat their breasts and rend their call on St. Germain : Blessed St. Germain, succourthy servants. The fighters on the walls take up the Gozlin invokes the Virgin, Mother of the Redeemer,Star of the Sea, bright above all other stars, to
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