| Philip Morin Freneau - American poetry - 1786 - 432 pages
...Their limbs with duft are cover'd o'er-^ Weep on, ye fprings, your tearful tide ; How many heroes arc no more ' If in this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O fmite thy gentle breaft, and fay The friends of freedom flumber here ' Thou, who flialt trace this... | |
| 1829 - 426 pages
...ACTION OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1781. AT Eutaw springs the valiant died : Their limbs with dust are covered o'er — Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide ;...of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim a tear, 0 smite thy gentle breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber here ! Thou, who shalt trace this... | |
| Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 412 pages
...ACTION OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1781. AT Eutaw springs the valiant died : Their limbs with dust are covered o'er — Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide ; How many heroes are no more ! Thou, who shalt trace this bloody plain, If goodness rules thy generous breast, Sigh for the wasted... | |
| William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781. BY PHILIP FRENEAU. AT Eutaw Springs the valiant died : Their limbs with...they Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O, smite your gentle breast, and say, The friends of freedom slumber here ! Thou who shalt trace this bloody... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. TO THE MEMORY OF THE AMERICANS WHO FELL AT EUTAW.s AT Eutaw Springs the valiant died ; Their limbs with...this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim the tear, 0 smite your gentle breast, and say, The friends of freedom slumber here ! Thou who shall... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...!" Here are some stanzas : — At Eutaw Springs the valiant died ; Their limbs with dust are covered o'er — Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide ;...this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim the tear, O smite your gentle breast, and say, The friends of freedom slumber here ! Stranger, their... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...Their limbs with dust are covered o'er — Weep on, ye springs, jour tearful tide ; How many heroes arc no more ! If, in this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim the tear, О smite your gentle breast, and say, The friends of freedom slumber here ! Stranger, their... | |
| The Dublin University Magazine.VOL.XXII July to December,1843 - 1843 - 770 pages
...dust are covered o'er — Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide ; How many heroes arc no more ! Tf, in this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim the tear, О smite jour gentle breast, and say, The friends of freedom slumber here 1 Stranger, their... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...bought too dear ; AT Eutaw Springs the valiant died ; Their limbs with dust are cover'd o'er— Weop on, ye springs, your tearful tide ; How many heroes are no more ! 'Tis better far to die, than bear The torments of life's closing year. Subjected to perpetual ills,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...action of September 8, 1781. At EUTAW springs the valiant died : Their limbs with dust are covered o'er — Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide; How...of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim a tear, О smite thy gentle breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber here I Thou, who shall trace this... | |
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