How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung;... Elegant extracts in poetry - Page 790by Elegant extracts - 1816Full view - About this book
| George Duffield - 1852 - 40 pages
...their country's wishes blest 7 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Eeturns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay— And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there.31 The contrast between the early and late years of... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dross a sweeter sod Than Fancy's foet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung...a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. i». vmaiNius, AS TRIBUNE, REFUSES THE APPEAL OF APPIUS CLAUDIUS. — Original Paraphrase from Livy.... | |
| James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1852 - 762 pages
...their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. ' By f iiry hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their...while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.' " And there was another ode, hy the same author, which, he said, he was also obliged to repeat, as... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deek their hallowed mould, She there shall dross a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By...a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their elay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there. 19. VIRGINIUS, AS TRIBUNE,... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 804 pages
...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Thau Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which,... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...all their country's wishes hlest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowM mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung: There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...their country's wishes bless'd ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallo w'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 800 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep d,e brave, who sink to rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When...hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Thau Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rang', By forms unseen their dirge... | |
| James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1853 - 746 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor conzes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
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