 | Rhode Island - Law - 1868 - 1384 pages
...little lily that raises its modest head as a foot-board to the grave — " How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...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... | |
 | Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell. a weeping hermit, there. Collins. AN UNEXPECTED RE-UNION. AS we stood at... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...probability has influenced the spelling of the word. 166. William Collins. 1721-1759. (History, p. 200.) ODE. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all...their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge 2 is sung ; There honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom... | |
 | Leonard Brown - Iowa - 1869 - 600 pages
...patriot must testify, that " It is sweet to die for one's native country." " How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? 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 awhile repair... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1865 - 834 pages
...weep for the death of the greatest martyr who has fallen. " How sleep the brave who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung) There Honor oomes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...TT OW sleep the brave who sink to rest, -*--'- By all their country's wishes blessed ! ode in 1746. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. ibu. When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, rhe Patsuns. Line i.... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 658 pages
...Lord! AMEN. Rudyard Kipling xlftejiappy^ferior "HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE" How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! 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 awhile repair... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...their country's wishes bless'd ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow M 2x 2 2 ; to And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there 1 ODE TO LIBERTY [Publ. 1747]... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - English language - 1916 - 136 pages
...Decline and Fall of Rome, chapter XVII. VI. Memorize ODE WRITTEN IN 1740 How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there! WILLIAM COLLINS. CHAPTER XVII EXPOSITION BY CONTRAST... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1916 - 368 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...shall awhile repair To dwell, a weeping hermit, there ! 434 NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried ; 432 We buried... | |
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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... 
