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" By starlight and moonlight he seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag, and the armed sentry's tramp; And the starlight and moonlight his silent wanderings lamp. With slow tread and still tread, he scans the tented line, And he counts the battery... "
The Captured Scout of the Army of the James: A Sketch of the Life Sergeant ... - Page 26
by Henry Clay Trumbull - 1869 - 60 pages
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Poems You Ought to Know

Elia Wilkinson Peattie - 1903 - 252 pages
...and heart beat In a moment he must die. By the starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag And the armed sentry's tramp; And the starlight and the moonlight His silent wanderings lamp. With slow tread and still tread, He scans the tented line;...
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The World's Best Poetry ...

John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 614 pages
...drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's...and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no warning sign. * Hanged as a spy by the British, in New York City, September 32, 1776. NATHAN...
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Early American History for Young Americans

Henry Sabin, Elbridge H. Sabin - 1904 - 410 pages
...drum-beat and heart-beat, in a moment, he must die. By starlight ami moonlight he seeks the Briton's camp ; He hears the rustling flag, and the armed sentry's...and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread gives no warning sign. The dark wave, the plumed wave, it meets his eager glance; And it sparkles 'neath...
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The Hawthorne Readers, Book 5

Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 pages
...and heart beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight He seeks the Briton's camp ; I te hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's tramp...tread and still tread, He scans the tented line ; And counts the battery guns By the gaunt and shadowy pine ; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no...
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Days and Deeds: A Book of Verse for Children's Reading and Speaking

1906 - 432 pages
...and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By the starlight and moonlight He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag And the armed sentry's...and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no warning sign. The dark wave, the plumed wave, It meets his eager glance; And it sparkles 'neath...
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English Lessons, Book 1

John Morrow - 1906 - 256 pages
...his eye, — Yet to drumbeat and heartbeat By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's...starlight and moonlight His silent wanderings lamp. A sharp clang, a steel clang, And terror in the sound! For the sentry, falcon-eyed, In the camp a spy...
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Poems by Grades: Containing Poems Selected for Each Grade of the ..., Volume 2

1907 - 372 pages
...and heart beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight He seeks the Briton's camp, And he hears the rustling flag And the armed sentry's tramp, And the starlight and the moonlight His silent wanderings lamp. With slow tread and still tread He scans the tented line;...
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Famous Fugitive Poems

Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 pages
...drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp ; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's...and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no warning sign. The dark wave, the plumed wave, It meets his eager glance ; And it sparkles...
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Poems of American History

Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1908 - 748 pages
...and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By the starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag . And the armed sentry's...and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no warning sign. The dark wave, the plumed wave. It meets his eager glance; And it sparkles 'neath...
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Standard Catholic Readers: First-[fifth] reader, Book 5

Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 508 pages
...beat and heart beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp: He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's...and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no warning sign. The dark wave, the plumed wave, It meets his eager glance; And it sparkles 'neath...
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