 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...sons shall 'comfort her old age, And I was aye a ' truant bird, that thought his home a cage ; For my father was a soldier, and, even as a child, My...; And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage- wall at Bingen — calm Bingen on the Rhine ! " Tell my sister... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...other sons shall comfort her old age, And I was aye a truant bird, that thought his home a cage : For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart...sword, And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage-wall at Bingen — calm Bingen on the Rhine ! 4 " Tell my sister... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pages
...other sons shall comfort her old age, And I was aye a truant bird, that thought his home a cage; For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart...scanty hoard, I let them take whate'er they would, but I kept my father's sword ; And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine On the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage. For my father was a soldier, and even as 8 w!w u upwqw{8fwgwLw w wP2*w v v v p 1 hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage wall at Bingen, — calm Bingen on the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...other son shall comfort her old age ; For I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage. For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart...; And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage wall at Bingen, — calm Bingen on the Rhine. " Tell my sister... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...other son shall comfort her old age ; For I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage. For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart...but kept my father's sword ; And with boyish love 1 hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage wall at Bingen, — calm Bingen on the... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...other sons shall comfort her old age, And I was aye a truant bird, that thought his home a cage; For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart...scanty hoard, I let them take whate'er they would, but I kept my father's sword; And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine On the... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1875 - 584 pages
...and suddenly beheld life's morn decline ; And one had come from Bingen — fair Bingen on the Rhine ! And when he died, and left us to divide his scanty...sword, And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage-wall at Bingen — calm Bingen on the Rhine ! " Tell my sister... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...old age ; For I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage. For my father was a toldier, and even as a child My heart leaped forth to hear him tell of straggles fierce and wild ; And when he died, and left us to divide his scanty hoard, I let them take... | |
 | 1876 - 508 pages
...other son shall comfort her old age; For I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart...; And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottage wall at Bingen, — calm Bingen on the Rliino. "Tell my sister... | |
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Tell my mother that her other sons shall comfort her old age, For I was still a truant bird, that thought his home a cage, For my father was a soldier, and even as a child My heart leaped forth to hear him tell of struggles fierce and wild ; And when... 
