 | 546 pages
...the memory of those who fell in the rebellion of 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest. With all their country's wishes blest! When spring, with...fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their kuell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung, There honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO OUR ELDEST HEIR. — Mrs. Henry Coleridge. DEEM... | |
 | 1847 - 454 pages
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." Here we have something beside mere rhyme. The stanzas... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 904 pages
...sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fmgers cold. Returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there...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 repair,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than ever Fancy's feet have trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms...shall a while repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." What a quantity of thought is here condensed in the compass of twelve lines, like a cluster of rock... | |
 | William Collins - 1848 - 158 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'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 gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...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 awhile repair,... | |
 | James Davie Butler, George Frederick Houghton - 1849 - 122 pages
...the life of eternity." " After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well." " How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their Country's wishes blest ! When...mould , She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than iancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands, their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung,... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...runs the world away. Hamlet — Act 3, Sc. 2. SHAKSPEARK. Moon. 3! - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...in all thy simple state ! Confirm the tales her sons relate ! EPITAPH. How sieep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...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 nwhile repair,... | |
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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;... 
