 | Henry Morse Stephens - 1900 - 306 pages
...assure us that we ourselves shall witness the ultimate triumph, they can at least command us to — " Charge once more then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body hy the wall ! " I have been reminding the lovers of poetry of the nature and claims of their heritage.... | |
 | Henry Morse Stephens - 1900 - 306 pages
...assure us that we ourselves shall witness the ultimate triumph, they can at least command us to — " Charge once more then, and be dumb ! Let the victors, when they come, When the forte of folly fall, Find thy hody by the wall I " I have been reminding the lovers of poetry of the... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 392 pages
...men fared thus before thee ; Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! Matthew Arnold 69 HESTER When maidens such as Hester die Their place ye may not well supply, Though... | |
 | Agnes Repplier, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, Bliss Perry, Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1901 - 306 pages
...assure us that we ourselves shall witness the ultimate triumph, they can at least command us to — " Charge once more then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall !" I have been reminding the lovers of poetry of the nature and claims of their heritage. Yet a word... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1901 - 410 pages
...his own fireside. Then, to crown all, he quoted the triumphant "Last Word" of Matthew Arnold : — "Charge once more, then, and be dumb, Let the victors...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall." He laughed, kissed his mother, told her to take no notice of his nonsense, and with a word to Escott... | |
 | Sarah Parke Morrison - 1901
...men fared thus before thee — Fired their ringing shot and passed, Hotly charged, and broke at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall ! * From " New Poems," published by Tichnor& Fields, now Houghton' Mifflin & Co. CHAPTER VIII. ANNALS... | |
 | 1901
...a lift when they are down. —Anon. jfrom tbe /JDanaoer's flBail. IN "THE FULLTS7ESS OF THE TIME." Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors when they come, When tbe foru of Folly fall. Find thy body by tbe wall! Matthew Arnold. In the bygone time of the Stone... | |
 | 1901
...who have caught the inspiration of the real leader may plant their flag upon the ramparts or they may let " The victors when they come, When the Forts of Folly fall, Find their bodies at the wall." In either event the world is better for their having lived in it; and as... | |
 | 1901
...who have caught the inspiration of the real leader may plant their flag upon the ramparts or they may let " The victors when they come, When the Forts of Folly fall, Find their bodies at the wall." In either event the world is better for their having lived in it ; and as... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 188 pages
...reprinted here. The last stanza contains a curious, and rather awkward, ambiguity. Thus it runs : — " Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors,...forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall." The natural meaning of these words would be that the person addressed had been engaged in defending the... | |
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Hotly charged — and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb ! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall... 
