 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,...  A dictionary of poetical illustrations - Page 513by Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...relate ! ODE TO THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung! There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - 1858 - 488 pages
...shall make an offering of the purest praise to their hovering spirits. " How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd ! When...is rung. By forms unseen their dirge is sung. There Honor comes — a pilgrim gray — To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | Thomas Morris - 1858 - 356 pages
...preserve this spot inviolate. " So sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 pages
...TRANSLATED INTO LATIN VEIISE. 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 dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...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...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...he cannot speak to them, he must speak of them). HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd! When...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray. To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | 1859 - 128 pages
...IN THE YEAR MDCCXLVI. 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 dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Keturns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 pages
...all their country's wishes blest? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Keturns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...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...repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. THE LABOURER. You cannot pay with money The million sons of toil—- The sailor on the ocean, The peasant... | |
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