 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 - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...Spring, oith dewy fingers cold, Returns 1o 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, ., pilgrim gray, To hless the turf that wraps their... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, nto life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordained to fill. 1 о th unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 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 grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter w>d, iar manners. He was the life and soul of every private company, and it was rem unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...with dewy fingen 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 forme unseen — their dirge is sung ; There — Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To of«»the turf, that... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...Aewy ßnftrf cold, Reti/гпв — to deck their ballow'd mould, She there shall dreie a tweeter Bod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod : By Fairy hands — their knell is rang, By formt unseen— their dirge is su np ; There— Honor come«, a pilgrim gray, To ti'tt!. the... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...1745: '1 How sleep the hrave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! 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... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1848 - 158 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 Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 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 Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
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