 The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.  Echoes of Harper's Ferry ... - Page 438edited by - 1860 - 513 pagesFull view - About this book
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...more your mighty deeds ; Upon denth's purple altur now See where the victor-victim bleeds 1 All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. MOURN NOT. If death from thee the loved doth sever, Mourn not 1 The good are parted not forever, Mourn... | |
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...your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads omen first Upon hit Mittmt Sad. Melancholy, hence, and get . Some piece of earth to be thy seat, Here the air... | |
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...your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust. —JAMES SHIRLEY. TEMPERANCE, OR THE CHEAP PHYSICIAN. Go now, and with some daring drug Bait thy disease... | |
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...more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor-Tictim bleeds ; All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. THE UNIVERSALIST SILENCED. — A few years since, a Universalist in one of the western states, .who... | |
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...more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds. Your heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust."1 A few observations, in closing, addressed to the believing soldier. There are many such, we... | |
 | William Parsons Lunt - 1848 - 146 pages
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...your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. SOLILOQUY ON PEATH. I HAVE not lived After the rate to fear another world. We come from nothing into... | |
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