 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...blood-stained sword in thunder down . And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of wo ! And ever and anon, he beat, The doubling drum, with furious heat; And though sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down; And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast, so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of wo;And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum with furious heat. And though, sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down, And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...his blood-stained sword in thunder down. And with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, A.nd blew a blast, so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ; And ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And though, sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | William Chambers - 1851 - 200 pages
...his bloodstained sword in thunder down, And, with a withering look, The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of wo ; And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat : And though sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...his blood-stained sword in thunder down ; And, with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ! And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...blood-stained sword in thunder down ; and, with a withering look, the war-denouncing trumpet took, and blew a blast so loud and dread, were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe. And ever and anon he beat the doubling drum, with furious heat : [Low key, very slowly.] and though,... | |
 | William Collins - 1898 - 236 pages
...his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down And with a with'ring look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe. 45 And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And tho' sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...his blood-stained sword in thunder down ; And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ! And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And, though sometimes, each dreary... | |
 | 1845 - 598 pages
...the French Revolution, and the shock of nations, he found them. He now put the trumpet to his lips, 'and " Blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe." His appeal pierced to the heart of the nation. England had never succumbed, but an indefatigable faction... | |
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And, ever and anon, he beat The doubling drum, with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight... 
