| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 370 pages
...tears, Would fain hurry by* ; and, with trembling and fears, He is launched on the wreck-covered river ! Strike till the last armed foe expires* : Strike for...green graves of your sires* ; God and your native land ! All search was vain, and years had passed* : that child was ne'ei forgot, When once a daring hunter... | |
| James Young - 1851 - 386 pages
...mustered in defence of humanity and its interests, and then " Strike! till the last armed foe expire* , Strike! for your altars and your fires; Strike! for...green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! Stereotyped and Printed by MORTON & GRISWOLD, LOUISVILLE. THE BORROWER WILL BE CHARGED AN OVERDUE FEE... | |
| Augustus Charles Thompson - 1851 - 244 pages
...when we come to the graves of our fathers." Many a Bozaris has cheered his band with the appeal — " Strike — till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and yonr fires — Strike — for the green graves of your sires — God — and yonr native land." Who... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...lightnings from the mountain cloud ; And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : — " Strike — till the last armed foe expires ! Strike...green graves of your sires ! God, and your native land ! " They fought, like brave men, long and well ; They piled the ground with Moslem slain ; They conquered... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...lightnings from the mountain cloud ; And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : — " Strike — till the last armed foe expires ! Strike...green graves of your sires ! God, and your native land ! " They fought, like brave men, long and well ; They piled the ground with Moslem slain ; They conquered... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band ; [Very loud, rapidly, and with much animation.] Strike — till the last armed foe expires ! — Strike...graves of your sires ! — God — and your native land ! [In a softer and slower manner.] They fought, like brave men, long and well, — they piled that... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...eloud ; And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : — " Strike — till the Lost armed foe expires ! Strike — for your altars and...green graves of your sires ! God, and your native land ! " They fought, like brave men, long and well ; They piled the ground with Moslem slain ; They conquered... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...Christianity in the hearts of our people strengthen the hands of tlie standard-bearer. His order was — " Strike till the last armed foe expires — Strike...green graves of your sires, God and your native land !" His inspiration, and the burning inspiration, of his heroic troops, was — " Land, where we learned... | |
| 1915 - 596 pages
...scared into breathlessness whenever it came my turn to read those intensely dramatic, capitalized lines: "Strike, for your altars and your fires, Strike, for...green graves of your sires, God and your native land!" I was especially intimidated by that verse in "The Battle of Waterloo," which whisperingly inquires,... | |
| 1881 - 1148 pages
...free institutions. Come to the army of Missouri, not for a week, or a month, but to free your country. Strike till the last armed foe expires, Strike for...graves of your sires — God and your native land. The burning fires of patriotism must inspire and lead you, or all is lost — lost, too, just at the... | |
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