 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 8edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Octavius Winslow - 1848 - 170 pages
...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 the dust."1 A few observations, in closing, addressed to the believing soldier.... | |
 | William Parsons Lunt - 1848 - 146 pages
...no more your mighty deeds; Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds! 4 All heads must come to the cold tomb: Only the actions of the just Preserve in death a rich perfume, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. III. SELECTIONS FKOM THE SCRIPTURES.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ; All hands must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. GEORGE WITHER. THIS poet was bom of a good family at Bentworth, near... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1849 - 572 pages
...no more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ! 4 All heads must come to the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Preserve in death a rich perfume, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. CM 506. DODDRIDGE. The Highway... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...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 the dust. t : HE CAN CARRY NOTHING WITH IIIM WHEN HE DIETH." WAGES of Sin is death... | |
 | 1851 - 558 pages
...boast no more 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. BOTH WORLDS HAVE THEIR PROPER BUSINESS. Consider the great purposes... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...no more 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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1852 - 464 pages
...boast no more his 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." 'If he could speak to us from his present position, methinks he would... | |
 | David Thomas - 684 pages
...more 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." In sublime contrast with this condition of man, as a corporeal mortal,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1852 - 636 pages
...boast no more 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. BOTH WORLDS HAVE THEIR PROPER BUSINESS. Consider the great purposes... | |
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