 OUR band is few but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls...  The New McGuffey First [ -fifth] Reader - Page 253by William Holmes McGuffey - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...comes, we shall be buried in one common destruction. LXV. — SONG OF MARION'S MBN.* William C. Bryant. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...warriovtf of South Carolina, form an interesting portion of the annals of th« American Revolution.] 1» Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader, frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen... | |
 | American literature - 1834 - 324 pages
...coming into the open field and fighting, to use their expression, " like a gentleman and a Christian." OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green-wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 286 pages
...near, And the night-sparrow trills her song, All night, with none to hear. 11 SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! SONG OF MARION'S MEN. BY WM. CULLEN BRYANT. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold j The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...coming into the open field and fighting, to use their expression, "like a gentleman and a Christian." OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told . Our fortress is the good green-wood. Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...near, And the night-sparrow trills her song, All night, with none to hear. 11 SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When MARION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...battle's wheel— Save them, in the dreadful storm ! 161 SONG OF MARION'S MEN. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OCH band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When MAHION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the... | |
| |
