... Dear girl, her name he dared not speak, But, as the song grew louder, Something upon the soldier's cheek Washed off the stains of powder. Beyond the darkening ocean burned The bloody sunset's embers, While the Crimean valleys learned How English love... The Ladies' Repository - Page 421865Full view - About this book
| Walter Learned - American poetry - 1897 - 338 pages
...While the Crimean valleys learn'd How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rain'd on the Russian quarters, With scream of shot, and...English Mary mourns for him Who sang of " Annie Laurie." Sleep, soldiers ! still in honor'd rest Your truth and valor wearing : The bravest are the tenderest,... | |
| Literature - 1897 - 330 pages
...While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters, With scream of shot, and...English Mary mourns for him Who sang of "Annie Laurie. " Sleep, soldiers ! still in honored rest, Your truth and valor wearing ; The bravest are the tenderest... | |
| John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters, With scream of shot and burst...English Mary mourns for him Who sang of "Annie Laurie." Sleep, soldiers ! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing; The bravest are the tenderest,... | |
| Margaret Elizabeth Sangster - Asylums - 1897 - 470 pages
...fame; Forgot was Britain's glory; Kach heart recalled a different name, But all sang " Annie Laurie." And Irish Nora's eyes are dim, For a singer dumb and...English Mary mourns for him Who sang of " Annie Laurie." Annie Laurie has come to mean, the universal soldier's sweetheart, " The girl he left behind him,"... | |
| Sherman Williams - Readers - 1898 - 344 pages
...While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters, With scream of shot, and...English Mary mourns for him Who sang of Annie Laurie. Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing; The bravest are the tenderest,—... | |
| Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 pages
...While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters, With scream of shot, and...English Mary mourns for him Who sang of "Annie Laurie." Sleep, soldiers ! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing ; The bravest are the tenderest,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 580 pages
...While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rained from the Russian quarters, With scream of shot and burst...English Mary mourns for him Who sang of " Annie Laurie." Sleep, soldiers ! still in honored rest, Your truth and valor wearing ; The bravest are the tenderest,... | |
| Education - 1898 - 682 pages
...While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And onee again a fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters With scream of shot, and burst...bellowing of the mortars. And Irish Nora's eyes are dim Fur a singer, dumb and gory, And English Mary mourns (or him Who sang of "Annie Laurie." Sleep, soldiers!... | |
| George Cary Eggleston - Fiction - 1898 - 290 pages
...under a fearful fire, sang Bayard Taylor's " Song of the Camp," giving us as an encore the lines: — " Ah, soldiers, to your honored rest, Your truth and valor bearing, The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring." With inspiration such as these women gave us, it was no wonder... | |
| Charles A. Page - United States - 1898 - 450 pages
...fighting, — the tornadoes of musketry, and the volleys of thunderbolts from hundreds of cannon, — " The scream of shot and burst of shell And bellowing of the mortars," — these have not been paralleled by this army, despite Williamsburg and Fair Oaks. The swollen list... | |
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