 | Garland - 1850 - 152 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. At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw ; And twice ere the cock-crow I dreamt it again. When... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...night-eloud 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... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1852 - 582 pages
...has been the theme of one of Campbell's most beautiful productions — " And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. ****** " At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...night-cloud had lower'd, 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,... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brackett - 1854 - 350 pages
...moved about here and there like specters, in the dark shadows of the buildings. " Thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die." The slaughter had been almost beyond account, and the Mexicans themselves admitted that they lost two... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 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 ;... | |
 | 1854 - 576 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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 fn^got 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. 
