 The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ! No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few; On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And glory guards, with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead.  Poems of American Patriotism - Page 110by Brander Matthews - 1899 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1883 - 210 pages
...Army, and most of them are those of members of the families descended from the Long Island settlers: "On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents...guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. " ANTIETAM, MARYLAND. Maybury Schenck, Private, Co. " K," 5th US Artillery, 9 Dec., 1862. r BATON KOUGE,... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1883 - 338 pages
...twenty miles away ! " THOMAS BUCHANAN READ. BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on Life's parade...meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...smote His thunder-harp of pines. Jbid. A poem round and perfect as a star. Ibid. THEODORE O'lIARA. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn sound The bivouac of the dead. The, Bimuac of the Dead. GW LANG FORD. Speak gently ! 't is a little... | |
 | Francis Marion McAdams - 1884 - 416 pages
...part of the grounds stands a beautiful little chapel, over the door of which is this inscription : "On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." Jf. Since we occupied this camp there has been less effort to construct quarters than in our previous... | |
 | 1884 - 780 pages
...thia beautiful eulogy which Lot the situiu upplicutiou to-day. The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade...meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 516 pages
...roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; N'o more on life's parade shall meet The brave and daring few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent...tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round No answer of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind, No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of... | |
 | Joseph West Moore - 1884 - 324 pages
...At dawn shall call t0 arms." THE NATIONAL MILITARY CEMETERY. " The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few." 275 " Your own proud land's heroic soil Must be your fitter grave; She claims from war his richest... | |
 | Stilson Hutchins, Joseph West Moore - 1885 - 366 pages
...tattoo ! No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with...rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind, Nor troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind. No vision of the morrow's strife... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1885 - 1128 pages
...many of your lion-hearted comrades "sleep their last sleep where they fought their last battle." " On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." The applause which had greeted the speaker when he took his place beside the flags was repeated, with... | |
 | Stilson Hutchins, Joseph West Moore - 1885 - 368 pages
...Dead," and the verses displayed in the cemetery are as follows : " The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo! No more on life's parade...meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the... | |
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