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... With the Poets: A Selection of English Poetry - Page 115by Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1833 - 550 pages
...constitutions, sunk into an early grave. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest. 'When spring, with dewy fingers cold,...dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor cornea, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf, that wraps their clay ; — And Freedom shall... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 2. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! — COLLINS. LfiSSON Home. 1. WHERE burns the loved hearth brightest Cheering the social breast ?... | |
| John Evans - 1834 - 306 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...their dirge is sung ! There HONOUR comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 pages
...recollection of a grateful posterity."1 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold«...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There HOKOÜR comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall a while... | |
| Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1835 - 280 pages
...constitutions, sunk into an early grave. How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest. When spring, with dewy fingers cold,...dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile... | |
| 1836 - 558 pages
...Written in the beginning of the year 1746. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! ODE TO MERCY. STROPHE. O THOU, who sit'st a smiling bride By valour's armed and awful side, Gentlest... | |
| George Lunt - 1836 - 36 pages
...as the inheritors of their glory, — How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,...sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod ! By spirit hands their knell is rung, — By forms unseen their dirge is sung, — There Honor comes, a... | |
| Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 pages
...constitutions, sunk into an early grave. ' How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest. When spring, with dewy fingers cold,...dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; — And freedom shall... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 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...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there. The Pleasures of Imagination, by MARK AKENSIDE (1721-1770),... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 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...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there. The Pleasures of Imagination, by MARK AKENSIDE (1721—1770),... | |
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