The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. THE STORY OF THE PHILIPPINES - Page 204by MURAT HALSTEAD - 1898Full view - About this book
| 1866 - 848 pages
...tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now sweeps upon the wind, No troubled thought at midnight's haunts, Of... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 538 pages
...children of the people, the grand chivalry of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van. The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 pages
...children of the people, the grand chivalry of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 pages
...in a civil war! Mourn not, then, overmuch for the loyal dead: — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread ; And Glory guards,...with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." Of the countless dead who died fighting for the alien flag, doubtless thousands were inspired by honest convictions... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1866 - 622 pages
...propriety be placed before every national soldiers' cemetery : — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." , At the alley-crossings stand the following : — " The hopes, the fears, the blood, the tears, That... | |
| Bartholomew S. De Forest - 1866 - 338 pages
...James rivers. Our loss that day did not exceed three thousand men in killed, wounded and missing. " In fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn tread The bivouac of the dead." • The battle of Drury's Bluff will be long remembered and talked... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1867 - 40 pages
...they sleep — in one red burial blent — they are far above the arguments of the living crowd. " On fame's eternal camping ground. Their silent tents...guards with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead." There is another element of our greatness, which we commemorate to-day- The number and variety of our... | |
| Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 564 pages
...Fairchild and the many others who but to name would consume this evening, your eyes seek for in vain. " On fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents...guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." I need not here speak of the achievements of the Army of the Tennessee. The world knows its history... | |
| Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge ("Mrs. A.H. Hoge") - 1867 - 592 pages
...people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. . " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread,. And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,... | |
| Jane Currie Hoge - 1867 - 504 pages
...people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,... | |
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