 | William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...too may fall and ask a tear: 'Tis not the beauty of the morn That proves the evening shall be clear. They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field ; Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear—but left the shield. Led by thy conquering... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...shield. In Freneau's poem on the heroes of Eutaw, we have this stanza : — They saw their injur'd country's woe ; The flaming town, the wasted field...Then rushed to meet the insulting foe ; They took the spear — but left the shield. An anecdote, which the late Henry Brevoort was accustomed to relate... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 788 pages
...blood tinged the clear waters of the Eutaw, where patriots fought and died for a holy principle. " They saw their injured country's woe , The flaming town, the wasted field ; Then marched to meet the insulting foe ; They took the spear, but left the shield ! Led by thy conquering... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 794 pages
...blood tinged the clear waters of the Eutaw, where patriots fought and died for a holy principle. " They saw their injured country's woe , The flaming town, the wasted field ; Then marched to meet the insulting foe ; They took the spear, but left the shield ! Led by thy conquering... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1871 - 520 pages
...The poem is as fine a thing as there is of the kind in the language." It contains this stanza: — " They saw their injured country's woe, The flaming...Then rushed to meet the insulting foe : They took the spear, but left, the shield." In the introduction to the third canto of " Marmion," there is an apostrophe... | |
 | American Whig Society - 1871 - 290 pages
...may fall, and ask a tear : 'Tis not the beauty of the morn That proves the evening shall be clear — They saw their injured country's woe ; The flaming...Then rushed to meet the insulting foe ; They took the spear — but left the shield. 4 Led by thy conquering genius, GREENE, The Britons they compell'd to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 294 pages
...may fall, and ask a tear: 'T is not the beauty of the morn That proves the evening shall be clear. . They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming...Then rushed to meet the insulting foe ; They took the spear, — but left the shield. Led by thy conquering genius, Greene, The Britons they compelled to... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 pages
...action of September 8, 1781." "Tis not the beauty of the morn That proves the evening shall be clear. They saw their injured country's •woe, The flaming town, the wasted field ; Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe, They took the spear — but left the shield. But, like the Parthian,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...borrow, in Marmion, the final line of one of the stanzas of his poem on the battle of Eutaw Springs: " They saw their injured country's woe. The flaming...Then rushed to meet the insulting foe ; They took the spear, but left the shield." Scott inquired of an American gentleman who visited him the authorship... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...too may fall, and ask a tear: Tis not the beauty of the morn That proves the evening shall be clear. They saw their injured country's woe, The flaming...insulting foe; They took the spear—but left the shield. Led by thy conquering standards, Greene, The Britons they compelled to fly: None distant viewed the... | |
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They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field ; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear— but left the shield. 
