 How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung;...  Official Report of the ... Annual Department Encampment - Halaman 142oleh United Spanish War Veterans. Department of Massachusetts - 1919Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | 1846 - 456 halaman
...trod ; By fairy forms their dirge is sung — By hands unseen their knell is rung; — There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! EULOGY DELIVERED AT NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 24, 1845, BY BF BUTLER, MOURNFUL but pleasant, friends and... | |
 | 1846 - 430 halaman
...their dirge i« sung — By hands unseen their knell is rung; — There Honour comes, a pilgrim i^ray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay : -And Freedom...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! EULOGY DELIVERED AT NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 24, 1845, BY BF BUTLER, LATE ATTORN EY -GENERAL OF THE UNITED... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 halaman
...odes : When spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould. * * * * There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. Who has not envied the sleep of the brave thus guarded and graced ? Who has not been thrilled at the... | |
 | 1847 - 454 halaman
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." Here we have something beside mere rhyme. The stanzas have fire and pathos in them; and there is nothing... | |
 | 1847 - 540 halaman
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall wake them from their lowly bed. 3. There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! COLLINS. 4. Each lonely scene shall thee restore, For thee the tear be duly shed ; Belov'd, till... | |
 | 1847 - 498 halaman
...mouldering heap." The sod that covers men like these is " consecrated ground," and there shall honor come, " a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." In our ramble to this hallowed spot, we took pains to transcribe some of the more quaint and characteristic... | |
 | 1847 - 418 halaman
...covers men like these is " consecrated ground," and there shall honor come, " a pilsrrim fray. To bleso the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." In our ramble to (his hallowed spot, we took pains to transcribe some of the more quaint and characteristic... | |
 | 1847 - 462 halaman
...these is " consecrated ground," and there shall honor come, " a pilfm'm gray. To bless the turf lhat wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." In our ramble to this hallowed spot, we took pains to transcribe some of the more quaint and characteristic... | |
 | 1847 - 526 halaman
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall wake them from. their lowly bed. 3. There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; Apd Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! COLLINS. 4. Each lonely scene shall... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 halaman
...Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than ever Fancy's feet have trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms...the turf that wraps their clay , And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." What a quantity of thought is here condensed in the... | |
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