 | William Draper Swan - Readers (Elementary) - 1844 - 184 pages
...Speak, father! " once again he cried, " If 1 may yet be gone ! " And but the booming shots replied, Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death In still, yet brave despair 5 — And shouted but once more aloud, " My father, must I stay ? " While o'er him fast, through sail... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - English poetry - 1848 - 526 pages
...been abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, "My Father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud,... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - English poetry - 1848 - 520 pages
...Father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet...booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. * Young Casablanca, a boy about thirteen years old, son to the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his... | |
 | Charles Northend - Readers (Primary) - 1866 - 172 pages
...called aloud — " Say, father, say, Tf yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay " Speak, father!" once again he cried, " If I may yet...he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And louked, from that lone post, to death, In still, yet brave despair, And shouted but once more aloud... | |
 | David Bates Tower - Elocution - 1849 - 180 pages
...father ! " once again he cried, " If I may yet be gofle ! " — And but the booming shots replied, 6. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. — 7. And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1849 - 420 pages
...Father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, Father ! " once again he cried, " If I may...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... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father! " once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone! And"—but the booming shots replied — HKMAXS. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father !" once again he cried ; " If I may...that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair ; And shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must 1 stay ? " While o'er him fast, through sail... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done.' He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. ' Speak, father,' once again he cried, ' If I may yet...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, ' My father, must I stay ? ' While o'er him fast, through sail and... | |
 | England - Catholic youth - 1850 - 456 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done !" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet...waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, IB still but brave despair. Very soon Napoleon began to prepare in earnest for irivading England; and... | |
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Say, Father, say, If yet my task is done!" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. "Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone! 
