 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...distance The faltering echoes come, Of the Hying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, — " The end no man can see; But \ve give him to his country, And we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rosebuds... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. " And, far from over the distance, The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. " Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper — ' The end no man can seo ; But we give him to his country,... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1864 - 354 pages
...aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet, And the grandsire speaks in a whisper: " The end no...grandsire's chair is empty, The cottage is dark and still •, There's a nameless grave in the battle-field, And a new one under the hill. And a pallid, tearless... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...pressed, In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet,...violets star the meadows, The rose-buds fringe the door, But the graudsire's chair is empty, The cottage is dark and still ; There's a nameless grave in the... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1864 - 364 pages
...aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet, And the grandsire speaks in a whisper : " The end no man can see ; But we give him to his country, Ami we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rose-buds fringe the door, And... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...the faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of the trumpet, and the rattling roll of the drum. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, " The end no man...violets star the meadows, the rosebuds fringe the door, While over the grassy orchard the pink-white blossoms pour. But the grandsire's chair is empty, the... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...pressed, In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet,...speaks in a whisper . " The end no man can see ; But we gave him to his country, And we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rose-buds... | |
 | William James Linton - African Americans - 1878 - 470 pages
...prest, In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come, Of the flying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, — " The end no man can see ; But we give him to his country.... | |
 | William Winter - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 130 pages
...prest, In the first wild passion of sorrow Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come, Of the flying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. AFTER ALL. 41 Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, — ' The end no man can see ; But we give him... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1879 - 296 pages
...in the first wild passion of sorrow, against his aged breast. And, far from over the distance, the faltering echoes come of the flying blast of trumpet and the rattling roll of drum. s. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper: ' The end no man can see; but we give him to his coimtry,... | |
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And the grandsire speaks in a whisper: " The end no man can see ; But we give him to his country, And we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rose-buds fringe the door, And over the grassy orchard The pink-white blossoms pour.... 
