| Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...humanity. CHAPTER XXVI. " Our bugle sang truce, for the nigbt-eloud had lower'd, And the sentinel-stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered— The weary to deep, and the wounded to die : When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, Fiy the wolf.scaring... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 248 pages
...hostilities. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUK bugles sang trace — for the night-cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...sustains. THE SOLDIER S DREAM. Campbell. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands...had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 250 pages
...of hostilities. THE SOLDIER'S DREAF OUR bugles sang truce—for the night-cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lour'd, And the sentinel stare set their watch in the sky : And thousands had sunk on the ground overpuwer'd. The weary to sleep, and the wounded tu die. / When reposing that night on my pallet of... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...sustains THE SOLDIER'S DREAM.—CmnplieK. OUR bugles sang truce—for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands...had sunk on the ground overpowered— The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...CANXIXS. 3. — THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And... | |
| Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...(Campbell.) OUR bugles Bang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel-stars set the watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground, overpowered ; The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night upon my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1835 - 258 pages
...hoetititlefl* THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring... | |
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