 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;...  Elegant extracts in poetry - Page 790by Elegant extracts - 1816Full view - About this book
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...all their country's honors blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there." During the administration of Governor Caswell, the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...THE BRAVE. WILLIAM COLLINS, bom 1720, died 1786. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all theii country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers...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 repair... | |
 | Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their Imllow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...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 repair,... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 892 pages
...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...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 repair,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 788 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...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...a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. 19. VIRGINIU8, AS TRIBUNE, REFUSES THE APPEAL OF APPIUS CLATDITS. — Original Paraphraie from Licy.... | |
 | James Spear Loring - History - 1852 - 720 pages
...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...a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. ' " And there was another ode, by the same author, which, he said, he was also obliged to repeat, as... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...their country's wishes bless'd When Spring, with dewy finders cold, Returns to deck their ballow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...a while repair To dwell, a weeping hermit there." — COLLINS. Again, what a quantity of thought is here condensed in the compass of twelve lines, like... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When...By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor conies, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 802 pages
...rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Ilcturns to deek their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which,... | |
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