 At Eutaw Springs the valiant died; Their limbs with dust are covered o'er — Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide; How many heroes are no more! If in this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite your gentle breast, and say The...  Studies in Philology - Page 181925Full view - About this book
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 702 pages
...Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide; How many heroes are no more! If, in this wreck of ruin they 5 Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite your gentle...breast, and say "The friends of freedom slumber here." Thou who shalt trace this bloody plain, If goodness rules thy generous breast, 1 0 Sigh for the wasted... | |
 | United States - 1893 - 1058 pages
...Freneau, the "Bard of the Revolution," wrote a poem, "To the Memory of the Dead who fell at Eutaw : " "At Eutaw Springs the valiant died ; Their limbs with...your tearful tide — How many heroes are no more ! "Led by the conquering genius Greene, The Britons they compelled to fly, None distant viewed the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...we, disunited, may freemen be still, And Britain go on — to be damn'd if she will. Eutaw Springs At Eutaw Springs the valiant died ; Their limbs with...heroes are no more ! If in this wreck of ruin, they 5 Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite your gentle breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber... | |
 | Margaret Sprague Carhart - American poetry - 1917 - 410 pages
...pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. 40 EUTAW SPRINGS0 AT Eutaw Springs the valiant died : Their limbs with...heroes are no more ! If in this wreck of ruin, they s Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite thy gentle breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...BRAVE AMERICANS Under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781. n life's fresh spring, and he who goes In the full...maid, The speechless babe, and the gray-headed man s Can yet be thought to claim a tear, О smite your gentle breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American poetry - 1922 - 284 pages
...called a drawn battle, 1781 resulted in the withdrawal of the British troops from South Carolina. AEutaw Springs the valiant died: Their limbs with dust are...this wreck of ruin, they Can yet be thought to claim the tear, Oh, smite your gentle breast, and say, The friends of freedom slumber here! Thou, who shalt... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - American literature - 1922 - 648 pages
...UNDER GENERAL GREENE. IN SOUTH CAROLINA, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1781 PHILIP FHENEAU At Eutaw Springs the valiant died; Their limbs with...heroes are no more! If in this wreck of ruin they 5 Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite your gentle breast, and say, "The friends of freedom... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1922 - 1086 pages
...Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide; How many heroes are no more! If in this wreck of ruin, they s Can yet be thought to claim a tear, O smite your gentle...breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber here! Thou, who shalt trace this bloody plain, If goodness rules thy generous breast, >° Sigh for the wasted... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - American literature - 1925 - 302 pages
...BRAVE AMERICANS Under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781. At Eutaw Springs the valiant died; Their limbs with...breast, and say The friends of freedom slumber here! Thou, who shalt trace this bloody plain, If goodness rules thy generous breast, Sigh for the wasted... | |
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