 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...shall be buried in one common destruction. LXV. — SONG OF MARION'S MBN.* William C. Bryant. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold...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... | |
 | 1834 - 324 pages
...the open field and fighting, to use their expression, " like a gentleman and a Christian." OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold...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 - 1834 - 238 pages
...South Carolina, form an interesting portion of the annals of th« American Revolution.] 1» Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader, frank and...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 - 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 - 1836 - 286 pages
...the night-sparrow trills her 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...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... | |
 | 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*,... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...the open field and fighting, to use their expression, "like a gentleman and a Christian." OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold...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 - 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 pages
...the night-sparrow trills her 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...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1840 - 252 pages
...VIS1TERS. " Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree, We know the forest round ui As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny...reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the deep morass." — BRYANT. " I RAYTHER guess," quoth Balt, when the party had all, by different routes,... | |
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OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. 
