 | United States - 1826 - 494 pages
...the author modestly withheld his name, we might have added another to our list of American poets ? He hears of outrage done by ruffian hordes, Whose...bullet lodges in his breast! He falls ! as crimson life gushed out, he cried " Tell them I bravely fought — and bravely died ! " To be serious, we think... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 490 pages
...the author modestly withheld his name, we might have added another to our list of American poets ? He hears of outrage done by ruffian hordes, Whose...— The fatal bullet lodges in his breast ! He falls ! aa crimson life gushed out, he cried " Tell them I bravely fought — and bravely died ! " To be... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...memory's softest hue, His mother — sisters — rise to fancy's view ; His heart beats high; "Thou'lt meet them soon again !" 'Twas thus hope sung ; but,...his soul was brave! He meets the foe; he conquers ! — O, the rest! — The fatal bullet lodges in his breast ; He falls! as crimson life gush'd out,... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 528 pages
...memory's softest hue, His mother — sisters — rise to fancy's view ; His heart beats high; "Thou'lt meet them soon again !" 'Twas thus hope sung ; but,...his soul was brave! He meets the foe ; he conquers ! — O, the rest ! — The fatal bullet lodges in his breast ; He falls! as crimson life gush'd out,... | |
 | National songs - 1857 - 172 pages
...memory's softest hue, His mother — sisters — rise to fancy's view ; His heart beats high ; " Thou'lt meet them soon again !" 'Twas thus hope sung ; but,...his soul was brave! He meets the foe ; he conquers ! — O, the rest ! — The fatal bullet lodges in his breast; He falls! as crimson life gush'd out,... | |
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... o'er the heaving main Beam'd sweetly down from heaven's unclouded plain; And while his bark swift cleaved the sparkling tide, His thoughts were wandering by the Hudson's side ; His distant home in memory's softest hue, His mother — sisters — rise... 