 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 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,... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 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." But sleep was denied to Dudley, who, cold, comfortless, and disheartened, was rendered further wretched... | |
 | 1843 - 184 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,... | |
 | 1844 - 328 pages
...night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel-stars set the watch io UN iky: •:<1 thousands bad rank on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. rhen reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf scaring faggot that guarded the slain,... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 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. " I hear thee speak of the better land, Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother ! oh where... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 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. — CampbM. " I hear thee speak of the better land, Thou callest its children a happy band ; Mother... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 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. \Vhen reposing that night on niy pallet of straw. By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain,... | |
 | John Ludlum McConnel - 1850 - 534 pages
...; and sulphury vapors. upward driven, Had left the Earth and but polluted Heaven."— THE ISLAND. " And thousands had sunk to the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die."—CAMFBRLL. " One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow."—HAMLET. A FIELD... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...nigbt-cloud had lowered, Aud 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 fu;riiyt that guarded the slain... | |
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OUR bugles sang truce ; for the nightcloud 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. 
