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... Annual Register - Page 217edited by - 1768Full view - About this book
| William Collins - Poems - 1828 - 108 pages
...while at school: to that school-dream we undoubtedly owe this ode* and this turn of it.* When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. Hy Fairy hands their knell is rung, By... | |
| William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...school : to that scliool-ilreaui \ve undoubtedly owe this ode, and this turn of it.• When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By... | |
| John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...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 ! By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ! There HONOUR comes, af rilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
| Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...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. * By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
| Joseph Brown Ladd, W. B. Chittenden - 1832 - 252 pages
...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 ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There, honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
| Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 352 pages
...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. 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... | |
| Sir William Hoste (1st bart), Lady Harriet Walpole Hoste - 1833 - 348 pages
...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. 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... | |
| James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 368 pages
...Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress o 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 gray, To bless the turf that wraps their,... | |
| John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...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! 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... | |
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