| Literature - 1915 - 862 pages
...Civil War. A shot had aiready broken the staff of the flag when Jackson leaped before his men: — " 'Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on !' he said." We shall fight to the last remnant of our resources in money and men in order that a principle... | |
| American essays - 1916 - 986 pages
...as a little boy of six who was reciting 'Barbara Frietchie" to me. After reciting the lines, — ' Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on! ' he said, — with great elocutionary fire, he stopped suddenly; and then, after a moment's thought,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. 4 A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face...a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on ! " he said. All day long through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet : All day long... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
...She leaned fir <mt on the window-sill, And shook it furth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadncs*, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred... | |
| E. S. S. Rouse - United States - 1864 - 346 pages
...leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will : " Shoot, if yon must, the old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she...a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! march on !" he said. All day long, through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet : All day long... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare.your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush...a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on ! " he said. All day long through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet : All day long... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 188 pages
...snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face...a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on ! " he said. All day long through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet : All day long... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,"...face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirr'd To life at that woman's deed and word. " Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!... | |
| James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But .spare your country's flag"...blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The noble nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
| Agriculture - 1864 - 448 pages
...beat!, But upare your country's fing," she said. A shade of sadness, a blnsh of ehame, Over the faco of the leader came-. The nobler nature within him stirred To life at llmt woman's doird and wort]. " Who touches a h«ir of yon gray head Dies like a dog I March on!" ho... | |
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