His initial visit is relived in the last two stanzas as a ghostly reenactment said to occur on windy winter nights.
His initial visit is relived in the last two stanzas as a ghostly reenactment said to occur on windy winter nights. Clad in a claret velvet coat, brown doe-skin breeches, boots that ride up to his thighs, and a French- cocked hat, he is thwarted in his romantic efforts when the jealous Tim the ostler overhears his plan to return by moonlight and alerts Kings George's men. When he rides back to the inn, he hears a gunshot, marking a warning of an impending ambush and the death of his love Bess, the landlord's daughter. For 10 points, name this Alfred Noyes creation, a dashing outlaw who is shot down on the road in an eponymous poem.
His initial visit is relived in the last two stanzas as a ghostly reenactment said to occur on windy winter nights.
“The {Highwayman}”