 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1855 - 310 pages
...once A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone. SONG OF MAEION'S MEN, OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 432 pages
...remonstrate with him for not coming into the open field, and fighting " like a gentleman and a Christian." SONG OF MARION'S MEN. " Our band is few, but true...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 412 pages
...with him for not coming into the open field, and fighting " like a gentleman and a Christian." SONG OP MARION'S MEN. " Our band is few, but true and tried—...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 416 pages
...with him for not coming into the open field, and fighting " like a gentleman and a Christian." SONG OP MARION'S MEN. " Our band is few, but true and tried...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...MABION's MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried,Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...MAUDS'* xn. Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...The hour of fate is nigh. On the help of God rely ! Forward ! We will do or die ! o. HAMILTON. VL — SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried, — our leader frank and bold, The British soldier trembles when Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, our tent... | |
 | National songs - 1857 - 172 pages
...the battle's wheelSave them, in the dreadful storm ! SONG OF MARION'S MEN. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent... | |
 | Howard Paul - American ballads and songs - 1857 - 144 pages
...HINOT'S History of the Insurrection in MassachuiMi. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. W. CI.TIKN BETAST. Born 1792. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When MARION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...cannot here deny ourselves the pleasure of quoting some of Bryant's felicitous lines on tho subject : " Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When MARION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent... | |
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OUR band is few but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. 
