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    The Battle of Sempach
    The Battle of Sempach
    The Battle of Sempach
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    The Battle of Sempach

    By Michael Wooff and Robert Walser

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Battle of Sempach - Michael Wooff

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Battle of Sempach, by Robert Walser

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Battle of Sempach

      Author: Robert Walser

      Translator: Michael Wooff

      Release Date: November 30, 2012 [EBook #41518]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH ***

      Produced by Michael Wooff

      The Battle of Sempach

      A Story

      By

      Robert Walser (1878-1956)

      Berlin. The Future Press. 1908.

      One day, in the middle of high summer, a military expedition was advancing slowly down the dusty country road that led towards a district of Luzern. The bright, actually more than bright, sun dazzled down over swaying armour serving to cover human bodies, over prancing horses, over helmets and parts of faces, over equine heads and tails, over ornaments and plumes and stirrups as big as snowshoes. To the right and to the left of the shining military expedition spread out meadows with thousands of fruit trees in them up as far as hills that, looming up out of the blue-smelling, half-hazy distance, beckoned and had the same effect as light and carefully painted window dressing. It was before noon and the heat was already oppressive. It was a meadowy heat, a heat contained in grass, hay and dust, for thick clouds of dust were being thrown up that sometimes descended like a veil over parts and sections of the army. Sluggishly, ploddingly, carelessly the long cavalcade moved forward. Sometimes it looked like a shimmering and elongated snake, sometimes like a lizard of enormous

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