 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;...  A Practical Grammar of the English Language - Page 127by Noble Butler - 1879 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Lunt - Fourth of July orations - 1836 - 36 pages
...their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod ! By spirit hands their knell is rung, — By forms unseen their dirge is sung, — There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 350 pages
...to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | George Thompson - Slavery - 1837 - 150 pages
...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, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the tarf that wraps their cJny, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | George Thompson - Slavery - 1837 - 148 pages
...deck their hallowed mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. I3y fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. There Honor comos, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay j , AnJ Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. '' By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every sod beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. Wards by T. Campbell... | |
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