| L. J. Marcy - 1877 - 342 pages
...night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain,... | |
| Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - 1877 - 128 pages
...night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.' " In the navy the Flag has been defended and honored, and conspicuously so in the brilliant victory... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1877 - 80 pages
...night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars2 set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet3 of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot4 that guarded the slain,... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 pages
...night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk in the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. Campbell. n. OROTUND. The Orotund is the same as pure tone, but magnified or intensified. It is used in expressing... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. 2. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain,... | |
| W. and R. Chambers (ltd.) - 1878 - 174 pages
...night-cloud had lowered,2 And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet 3 of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot * that guarded the slam... | |
| John William Jones - 1879 - 402 pages
..." Our bugle sang truce, and the nlght clouds had lowered, And the sentlnel stars set thelr watch ln the sky, And thousands had sunk to the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to dle." You remember how you sat by some comrade whose life -blood was fast ebbing, and received from... | |
| Jacob Thompson (jun.) - 1879 - 388 pages
...night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered ; The weary to sleep and the wounded to die." CAMPBELL. THE fall of Picton served as a signal for the brigade of horsemen to charge, and avenge the loss of... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 354 pages
...night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain, At... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pages
...night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground, overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain,... | |
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