 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...destruction. LXV. — SONG OF MARION'S MBN.* William C. Bryant. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | American literature - 1834 - 324 pages
...use their expression, " like a gentleman and a Christian." OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles...Our fortress is the good green-wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...interesting portion of the annals of th« American Revolution.] 1» Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader, frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | John Pendleton Kennedy - Albemarle County (Va.) - 1835
...and happiest of mortals. CHAPTER XVI. Oar fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree, -We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea.....walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its sale and silent islands Withjn the dark morass. — Bryant. THE faithful Horse Shoe being thus left... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round...Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 536 pages
...reasoning, certainly sympathizing, steeds dash down the wind. " Our band is few, but true and tried Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 288 pages
...song, All night, with none to hear. 11 SONG OF MARION'S MEN, OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...MARION'S MEN. BY WM. CULLEN BRYANT. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold j The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, We know its walls of thorny vine*,... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...use their expression, "like a gentleman and a Christian." OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles...Our fortress is the good green-wood. Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American fiction - 1840 - 248 pages
...through the door, and was him•elf the last to retire from the scene. CHAPTER V. EVENING VISITERS. " Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree,...walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, _ Its safe and silent islands Within the deep morass." — BBTANT. " I RAYTHER guess," quoth Balt,... | |
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We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. 
