 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 their knell is rung;...  English Journal - Page 3401919Full view - About this book
 | Edward Quillinan - 1820 - 158 pages
...there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rune;; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To hless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hiTmit there... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pages
...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 unseen...their dirge is sung ; There honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...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 unseen their dirge is sung ; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...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 unseen...shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. 1 This, and the succeeding ode, seem to have been written on the same occasion, viz. the rebellion... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pages
...lullow'd mould, Shi- thi •>••• shall dross a sweeter sod Than t'-incy% feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There honor ctwnet, a pilgrim grey* To blr •« the turf that wraps their clay, And/rtmfom shall a while... | |
 | 1822 - 820 pages
...feeling from mankind; indeed their labours which survive themselves are for ever creatmg it. Not only " By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung." On the 27th Mr. John Scott. He was a native of Scotland, and received his education in the university... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 436 pages
...of the human race ; and whose honourable names are echoed with rapture, even through the universe ! By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Fancy comes, at twilight grey, To bless the turf, that wraps their clay ; And Pity does a while repair,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rang, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO MERCY. Strophe. 0 THOU ! who sitt'st a smiling... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 pages
...hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." Collins. 1746. Tlie unfortunate author of these inimitable... | |
 | 1825 - 262 pages
...O harmony," with awful sound. Wcbbes Gleet-. ,f" When winds breathe soft along the silent deep, J " By fairy hands their knell is rung, ," By forms unseen their dirge is sung." Ibid. Collini, MISS STEPHENS The Father of this accomplished vocalist was a Carver and Gilder in Park... | |
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