Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. The Medical Dept. of the U.S. Army in the World War - Page 972by United States. Surgeon-General's Office - 1927Full view - About this book
| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...arm, that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! dn ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave When Death, careering...back Before the broadside's reeling rack. The dying wand'rer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours fly, In... | |
| 1835 - 842 pages
...spirit, and might almost be supposed to be from a different hand. The images contained in the lines, When Death careering on the gale Sweeps darkly round...ru.sh wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rock, are of the highest order of Ideality. The deficiencies * The expression "woven nir," much in-fined... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 pages
...arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. IV. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| 1839 - 580 pages
...that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy flam »hall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering on...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Khali look at once to heaven and the«, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the bravef When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| John Keese - 1840 - 302 pages
...seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; A When death, careering on the gale, > i Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, ' And frighted...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave. When death, careering...wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and theo, And smile to see thy splendours fly In triumph o'er the closing eye. Flag of the free heart's... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...meteor glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When death, careering...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...that strikes below — That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave : When death, careering...wildly back- — Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea, Shall look, at once, to heaven — and (Лее, And smile — to sf?e... | |
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