 Parading round, and round, and round : To thoughtlefs youth it pleafure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To fell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering arms: And when Ambition's voice commands, To march, and fight, and fall,...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 190edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Hymns, English - 1850 - 244 pages
...and round ; To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering...commands, To march, and fight, and fall, in foreign lands. 2 I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round, To me it talks of ravaged... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...arid round : To thoughtless youth it pleasure yield«, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell sions saw ; Ч'hin_'s then unutterable, ami visions then Of incommunicable glory bright commande, To march, and fight, and fall in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...HEARING THE DRUM. To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering...To march, and fight, and fall in foreign lands. I hato that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: To me it talks of ravaged... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...and round; To thoughtless youths it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering...fight, and fall in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round; To me it talks of ravaged plains, And burning... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...and round: To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering...commands, To march, and fight, and fall, in foreign lands. 2 I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: To me it talks of ravaged... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...and round; To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering...fight, and fall, in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round and round and round ; To me it talks of ravaged plains, And burning... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...bee, For ever and for ever. A thousand suns will stream on thee, THE DEUM.— Scott of AmwtlL To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering arms ; And when Amhition's voice commands, To inarch, and fight, and fall in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...and round: To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round : To me it talks of ravaged plains, And burning... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...and round : To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering...commands, To march, and fight, and fall in foreign lands. 1 hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round : To me it talks of ravaged... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...and round: To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields, To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace, and glittering...commands, To march, and fight, and fall, in foreign lands. 2 I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round: To me it talks of ravaged... | |
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