 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. By fairy hands their knell is rung,...  The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 169edited by - 1909 - 1313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...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...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. THE LABOURER. You cannot pay with money The million sons of toil—- The sailor on the ocean,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...simple state ! Confirm the tales her sons relate 1 ODE TO THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sungl There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. And Freedom shall... | |
 | English language - 1860 - 366 pages
...THE REBELLION OF 1745 " How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country's wishes bless'd When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair... | |
 | Mrs. Catharine Harbeson (Waterman) Esling - Flower language - 1861 - 280 pages
...the brave, who sink to res* By all their country's wishes bless'd : When Spring, with dewy ringers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there...wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwel) a weeping hermit there. COLL.NS. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...cannot speak to them ; he must speak of them. HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE. COLLINS. How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...their dirge is sung ; There honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...roaring tide he plunged to endless night. CXXIV ODE WRITTEN IN MDCCXLV1 How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When...their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 262 pages
...the veil of art, She struggled never 'gainst her fate. of tf)e ISrabe. How sleep the "brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...thy simple state! Confirm the tales her sons relate! ODE TO THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung! There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their claj, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...ODE WRITTEN IN MDCCXLVI HOW sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest I When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 344 pages
...shortest lyric in the language, is also one of the most exquisite. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there !" HARTLEY. How beautiful ! The memory of every brave man who has died for his country is embalmed... | |
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