 THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form....  The Band of Hope Treasury - Page 131868Full view - About this book
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...by their side ! " CASABIANCA. — Mrs. Hemans. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
 | William Russell - 1846 - 394 pages
...or three feet; as irj the following example : " The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him, o'er the dead ; „ " Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm, A creature of heroic blood, A... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 pages
...vessel, when the dames had reached the powder. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 pages
...brightly the fire-crested billows are gleaming, And wildly from Mullagh the eagles are screaming. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The names that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. • More cruel far Than when the... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...abandoned. He perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had...the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...abandoned. He perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had...the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 526 pages
...mortals given, — Oh! lay thy lovely dreams aside, Or lift them unto Heaven. C AS ABI ANC A.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had...the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 520 pages
...allied, Never to mortals given, — Oh ! lay thy lovely dreams aside, Or lift them unto Heaven. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wrec*. Shone round him o'er tne dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm;... | |
 | Gorham Dummer Abbott - 1848 - 168 pages
...may like to see it, I will present it to them. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 pages
...vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.] THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud,... | |
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