 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than ever Fancy's feet have trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms...the turf that wraps their clay , And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." What a quantity of thought is here condensed in the... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...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...is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 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...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...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...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 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...their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 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...rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall nwhile repair,... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...all their country's honors blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there." During the administration of Governor Caswell, the western district... | |
 | Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their Imllow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 892 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...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes a Pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 788 pages
...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 awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which, he said, he was also obliged to repeat, as a part... | |
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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 rung;... 
