 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...names had reached the powder. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his Father's word; That Father, faint in death below, His voice no longer...Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone I And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their... | |
 | Old Sailor - Naval biography - 1826 - 534 pages
...proud though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer...heard. He called aloud : — " Say, father, say If I yet may be gone ! And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 4 " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If J may yet be gone !" — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 5 They wrapt the ship in splendour wild., , They caught the flag on high, / And streamed above the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...proud, though child like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud— "Say, father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...?' He knew not thnt the chieftain lay He called aloud—' Say, father, say Unconscious of his son. ' If I may yet be gone!'—• And but the booming shots replied, ' Speak, father!' once again he cried, And fast the flames rolled on. And in his waving hair; And looked... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. D He call'd aloud:—" Say, Father! say, If yet my task is done?...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And look'd from that lone post... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Child rearing - 1833 - 190 pages
...A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled on ; he would not go, Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer...not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. hild at Home. 5 'Speak, father," once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone." And— but the booming... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pages
...proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer...aloud — "Say, father, say If yet my task is done 1" He knew not that the chieftain lay . Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father!" once again he cried,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1834 - 512 pages
...proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer...aloud — " Say, father, say If yet my task is done 1" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his eon. " Speak, Father!" once again he crir,!,... | |
 | Jacob Abbott, Old Harlo - Children - 1835 - 272 pages
...not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. 4. He called aloud—" Say, father, say, If yet my task...not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 5. "Speak, father!" once again he cried ! "If I may yet be gone !" And—but the booming shots replied,... | |
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once again he cried, ' If I may yet be gone ! ' And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 
