 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.  Selections from Various Sources - Page 189by Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...grandeur with simplicity, and romance with reality : — ' How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod • Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pages
...than threescore syllables : — < TO THE MEJ10KY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE REBELLION OF 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's...Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress o sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. " By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1833 - 550 pages
...their country's service, with broken fortunes and ruined constitutions, sunk into an early grave. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their...spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor... | |
 | Sir William Hoste (1st bart), Lady Harriet Walpole Hoste - 1833 - 348 pages
...your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest; When Spring, with...Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms... | |
 | Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.) - 1833 - 352 pages
...your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest; When Spring, with...Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms... | |
 | Adam Fergusson - 1833 - 424 pages
...interested my feelings more, nor could I help reciting aloud — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ; When Spring, with...cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there will dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod." I think Collins must have been favoured... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 pages
...less than threescore syllables \ — TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE REBELLION OF 174)5. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest I When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...extinction of the REBELLION in 1746, must not be omitted — How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their COUNTRY'S wishes blest! When Spring, with...Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod! By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1835 - 280 pages
...their country's service, with broken fortunes and ruined constitutions, sunk into an early grave. How sleep the brave who sink to rest With all their country's...spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor comes,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1835 - 592 pages
...and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity."1 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold« Returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod ; By fairy hands... | |
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