| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...comes, we shall be buried in one common destruction. LXV. — SONG OF MARION'S MBN.* William C. Bryant. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...warriovtf of South Carolina, form an interesting portion of the annals of th« American Revolution.] 1» Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader, frank...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 286 pages
...near, And the night-sparrow trills her song, All night, with none to hear. 11 SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
| 1836 - 268 pages
...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! SONG OF MARION'S MEN. BY WM. CULLEN BRYANT. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold j The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 pages
...near, And the night-sparrow trills her song, All night, with none to hear. 11 SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman - 1840 - 972 pages
...last to retire from the scene. CHAPTER V. EVENING VISITORS. " Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree, We know the forest round us As seamen do the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...When MARION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
| William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...battle's wheel— Save them, in the dreadful storm ! 161 SONG OF MARION'S MEN. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OCH band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British soldier trembles When MAHION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the... | |
| John Smith Hanna - 1844 - 378 pages
...partizan was never tarnished by any violation of the laws of war or humanity." Song of Marion's Men. "Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader,...When Marion's name is told. .Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the Cypress tree : We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
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