Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear : When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again... Hero Tales from American History - Página 62por Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 335 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 páginas
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea....Its safe and silent islands, Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 páginas
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea....Its safe and silent islands, Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress...Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
| 1881 - 520 páginas
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea...Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1881 - 704 páginas
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cvpress-tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea....Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery, That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 páginas
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea...Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1882 - 318 páginas
...trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood Our tent the cypress-tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea....Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear: When, waking to their tents on fire They... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 páginas
...virgin air," and the Yellow Violet, " half hidden from the eye." " Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea," is more like a catch of Robin Hood, or the followers of the philosophic Duke in Arden, than the war-cry... | |
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