 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder, peal on peal, afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier, e'er the morning star ; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Qr whispering with white lips... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 pages
...impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar : And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up...whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! they come ! they come !" Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up...whispering with white lips — " The foe ! they come ! they come !" And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...impetuous speed, And swiftly forming .in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! They cooie I... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder, peal on peal, afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens, with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! They come !... | |
 | Laurence Dwight Smith - 1955 - 180 pages
...the clauering car, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And deep the thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up...whispering, with white lips, — 'the foe! they come, they come!' [mustering squadron] [forming The reader can for his own account devise simple or intricate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 862 pages
...ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near the beat of the alarming drum Housed up the soldier ere the morning star ; While thronged...whispering with white lips — " The foe ! they come ! they come !" And wild and high the " Cameron's gathering rose !" The war-note of Lochiel, which Albui's... | |
 | 1816 - 592 pages
...impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum 'Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — "The tbe ! They come! they... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...London or of England, but in his mother's people, and the most stirring stanza of his Waterloo is this: And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hilb Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes;— How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills,... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 pages
...impetuous speed, And swiftly forming iu the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier o1er the morning star ; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips—"... | |
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And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming... 
