 She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,...  Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions - Página 390por Edward Everett - 1850Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 804 páginas
...voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By nil 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, Thau Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 páginas
...! 18. ODE. — William Collins. Born, 1730 ; died, 1756. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deek their hallowed mould, She there shall dross a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 páginas
...contained in the few lines that follow : TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELT, IN THE BEBELLION OF 1745. " How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country's wishes bless'd When Spring, with dewy finders cold, Returns to deck their ballow'd mould, She there shall... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 páginas
...Cleft-born — bom in a crevice or cleft. HYMN TO THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! "When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck W their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy... | |
 | W. P. Rowles - 1853 - 242 páginas
...which is to follow, divests death of its terror, and girds the dying with a rainbow of gloryThus die the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest. But to linger day by day in an enfeebling contest with the destroyer — to look in vain for the familiar... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 páginas
...ingulfed in a morass. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...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 unseen their dirge is sung;... | |
 | 1854 - 382 páginas
...desultory paper, we are tempted to quote at length : — " 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 mouH, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. " By fairy hands their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 páginas
...' Tarsel : ' the falcon. ODE, Written in the Year 1746. 1 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 hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 2 By fairy hands... | |
 | 1854 - 456 páginas
...hand Into the land of the great departed, ODE. — Collins. How sleep the brave, who sink to 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 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy... | |
 | 1855 - 804 páginas
...consecrated spot she will hover an unslumbering sentinel— " How sleep the brave who sink to rrtt By all their country's wishes blest — When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their halloweil mould. She then shall dress л richer sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
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