 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...  Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature - Page 367by Robert Chambers - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 338 pages
...all 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...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 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...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 pages
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 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...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...their country's wishes bless'd! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...rest, By all their country's wishes blessed! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod...knell 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...to Schiraz' walls he bent his way. OJe Written in the Геаг 174f>. How sleep the brave who sink ant nectar from their cups of gold. ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...in a loftier sense than the bard intended, the memorable words — " Here sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung, There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...their country's wishes blest 1 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...their dirge is sung; Their honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...their country's wishes bless'd When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...knell 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 a... | |
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