| Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...stood, as born to rule the storm, — A creature of heroic blood, a proud, though child-like form. • Speak, Father ! " once again he cried, " if I may...gone ! And " — but the booming shots replied, and i'ast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, and in his waving hair, And looked... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 386 pages
...faint In death below, His voice no longer heard. * Speak, father ! ' once again he cried, • If 1 may yet be gone ! * And 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... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1855 - 420 pages
...child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his Father's word ; free!" 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... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...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...chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father i" once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone," — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...proud though child-like form ! 2. 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. 8 " Speak, father ! " once again he cried, " if I may yet be gone ! And *' — but the booming shots... | |
| Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...father's word/I Thai father, faint in death below,) His voice no longer heard. | He call'd aloud — I " Say, father, say | If yet my task is done ?" He knew...not that the chieftain lay | Unconscious of his son. I " Spea/t, father !" | once again he cried, | " If I may yet be gone !" | And but the booming shots... | |
| Great Britain - 1855 - 374 pages
...and perished at his post — a striking example of filial obedience. '"Speak father!' once again be cried, ' If I may yet be gone !' And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. " Upon his brow lie felt their breath, And in his waving hair; And look'd from that lone... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - Poetry - 1855 - 620 pages
...The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word; That father, faint in death Mow, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud — " Say, father, say If yet my task is done V He knew not that the cliieflain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried,... | |
| Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...proud, tho' 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 1" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...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...yet be gone ! And " But the booming shots replied, Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And looked from that lone post of death,... | |
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