 | American literature - 1881 - 520 pages
...this moment. Possibly we might meet the lonely paddler called to mind when our commander recited : " They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul...lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by her fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe." "By Jupiter! I believe you've exorcised her. See there!"... | |
 | F. T. Wilson - 1881 - 234 pages
...the refrain : . r 'They made her a grave too cold and damp For a heart so loving and true ; She has gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp Where all night...long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. " Her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see — Her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long, long, and loving our... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 pages
...»•• a* theMMkl I I bt Hat«.-- jr^lralrrf. • THET made her a grave, too cold and damp For a sonl so warm and true ; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,1 Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white < tafitt ' And her fire-fly... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 444 pages
...wandered into that dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some dreadful morass. 1. " They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul...long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. 2. "And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 452 pages
...wandered into that dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some dreadful morass. 1. " They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul...long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. 2. "And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see, And her paddle I soon shall hear ; Long and loving our... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1882 - 682 pages
...lost in some of its dreadful morasses. La I'oesie a ses moustres comme la Nature.— DfAlembcrt. I "THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul...; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, * \Vlicre, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. " And her fire-fly lamp... | |
 | James Johonnot - Geography - 1882 - 446 pages
...wandered into that dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some dreadful morass. 1. " They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul...true ; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp s Where all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. 2. "And her fire-fly lamp... | |
 | H. BUTTERWORTH - 1882 - 338 pages
...was believed that he had gone into the swamp in search of his loved one, and had there perished: — "They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles... | |
 | 1883 - 494 pages
...the " Ladder of St. Augustine," set forth noble thoughts ; but it was of no use. " • They made fier a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true,' " were the n< xt words that came unbidden to my lips, and, yielding to my impulse, my fancy ranged... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - Salt Lake City (Utah) - 1884 - 352 pages
...there perished : — "They made her a grave, too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true ; And she 's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where, all night...by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe." Philadelphia pleased Moore. On leaving it he wrote a ballad rarely equalled in beauty, beginning, —... | |
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THEY made her a grave, too cold and damp " For a soul so warm and true ; " And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp *, " Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, 
