| College student newspapers and periodicals - 1842 - 542 pages
...Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds, Upon death's purple altar now, See where the victor-victim bleeds ! Your heads must come To the cold... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Ballads, English - 1844 - 188 pages
...down, And in the dust be equal made 'With the poor, crooked scythe and spadc . Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they...on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold... | |
| Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1844 - 400 pages
...crown ' And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they...on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. " Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they...on your brow; Then boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds; All heads must come To the cold... | |
| Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...and spade. Some men with su-ords may reap the field. And plant fresh laurels и Iiere they kill ; Rut their strong nerves at last must yield, They tame but one another still : Early or late They sioop to fate, And must give up their, murmuring hrenth. When they, pale captives, creep to death.... | |
| Sir Robert Adair - Europe - 1844 - 552 pages
...first-rate talents.' Cependant tout ce qu'ils ont fait, tout ce * Speech on Mr. Fox's India Bill. f " The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds, Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ! Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and «paje. Some men with swords may reap the fitli, ve : Or, from the air ! murt jit'id, They tame but one another still ; Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
.... ' With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant the laurels where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tume but one another still. Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath,... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill ;3 But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still.4 Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale... | |
| 1876 - 818 pages
...and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. " The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold... | |
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