 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,...  A dictionary of poetical illustrations - Page 513by Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Full view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...REBELLION OF 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell, a weeping... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...must not be omitted — How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their COUNTRY'S wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! COLLINS. But lamentable to say, the generality of wars of which we read in the page of history, are not defensive,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 pages
...which is as follows : — 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 dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 pages
...which is as follows : — 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 dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 pages
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...BEBELLIOV OP 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell, a weeping... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pages
...and moisture, and consequently is unfit for architectural purpc GLORY. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd! When...repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...away. WILLIAM COLLINS. 1720-1756. ODE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their countiy's wishes bless'd ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1840 - 340 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow •il mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell, a weeping... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...THI MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE REBELLION OF 1745. " How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country's wishes bless'd When Spring, with...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair... | |
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