 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.  Studies in Philology - Page 191925Full view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE BEBELLIOV OP 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With 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 feet have ever trod. '' By Fairy hands their... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1840 - 340 pages
...THE MKMOny OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE BEBKLLIOV OF 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow •il mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. '' By Fairy... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...country's wishes blest ! (When Spring, wiih dewy fingers cold, [Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod By fairy hands their knell it rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf... | |
 | 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. hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1844 - 492 pages
...their country's wishes blest ; When Spring wilh dewy lingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy bands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 1048 pages
...and cheered so often the Christian pilgrim in his journey toward Zion. How sleep the good who sink to rest ' By all their country's wishes blest, when...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a swceter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By angels' hands their... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...immortal, and shonU be continually developing ahsssasriMS. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring-, with...dewy fingers cold, Returns — to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dre*s n. svee Than Fancy's feet I: By Fairy hands— their knell Hy farms vnsefn... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Indians of North America - 1845 - 210 pages
...temperate in his diet, and in all respects enjoyed a good private reputation. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to seek their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod !... | |
 | John Frost - Presidents - 1845 - 208 pages
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to seek their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod ! By fairy forms their dirge is sung — By hands unseen their knell is rung — There Honour comes, a pilgrim... | |
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