 The clouds that fling The lightning, brighten ere the bolt appears ; The pantings of the warrior's heart are proud Upon that battle morn whose night-dews wet his shroud ; CLIX. The sun is loveliest as he sinks to rest ; The leaves of autumn smile when...  Fanny - Page 60by Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1821 - 63 pagesFull view - About this book
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...The pantings of the warrior's heart are proud Upon that battle morn whose night-dews wet, his shroud; CLVI. The sun is loveliest as he sinks to rest; The...autumn smile when fading fast; The swan's last song is sweetest — and the best Of Meigs's speeches, doubtless, was his last. And thus the happiest scene,... | |
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...pantings of the warrior's heart are proud Upon that battle morn whose night-dews wet his shroud ; CLIX. The sun is loveliest as he sinks to rest; The leaves...autumn smile when fading fast; The swan's last song is sweetest — and the best Of Meigs's speeches, doubtless, was his last. And thus the happiest scene,... | |
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...pantings of the warrior's heart are proud Upon that battle mom whose night-dews wet his shroud ; CLIX. The sun is loveliest as he sinKS to rest ; The leaves...autumn smile when fading fast ; The swan's last song is sweetest — and the best Of Meigs's speeches, doubtless, was his last. And thus the happiest scene,... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1860 - 630 pages
...your Transactions, a few years ago, of which Halleck, from his ' Fanny,' shall be my interpreter : The leaves of autumn smile, when fading fast, " The swan's last song is sweetest, and the best Of MEIUS' speeches doubtless was his but !" I therefore crave your indulgence... | |
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...the warrior's heart arc proud Upon that battle morn whose night-dews wet his shroud ; CLIX. The son is loveliest as he sinks to rest ; The leaves of autumn smile when fading fast; The swan's last song is sweetest — and the best Of Mcigs's speeches, doubtless, was his last. And thus the happiest scene,... | |
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...sinks to rest ; The leaves of autumn smile when fading fast ; The swan's last song is sweetest — and the best Of Meigs's speeches, doubtless, was his last. And thus the happiest scene, in these my rhymes, Closed with a crash, and ushered in — hard times. CLX. St. Paul's tolled one — and fifteen minutes... | |
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...Tlie pantings of the warrior's heart are proud Upon that battle-mom whose night-dews wet his shroud ; 2腌2 ͊2 sweetest. FITZ-CREENU HALLECK. FORTUNE. ENID'S SONG. TTRV, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud... | |
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...The pantings of the warrior's heart are proud Upon that battle-morn whose night-dews wet his shroud ; as Brutus is ; But, as you know me * Cœsar's wounds, Antumn smile when fading fast ; The swan's last song is sweetest. FITZ.CREENE HALLECK. FORTUNE. ENID'S... | |
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