 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...cloud had lowered 3, And the sentinel 4 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 pallet5 of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain,... | |
 | John Purdue Bidlake - 1863 - 224 pages
...land ?' ' Oh, Caledonia, stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child !' ' And thousands had sunk on the ground over-powered ; The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.' Sceptre, learning, physic must All follow thee, and come to dust.' PUNCTUATION. PUNCTUATION is the... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 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,... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 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,... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 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;... | |
 | Henry Drury - 1865 - 430 pages
...night clouds had lowered, And the sentinel stars kept 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,... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 pages
...thenight-cloudhad 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 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 cf straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain, At... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 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 ;... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 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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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. 
