 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 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 ;... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1866 - 306 pages
...night clouds had lowered, And the sentinel stars kept a 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,... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1868 - 386 pages
...all to the I2th of May : Killed, 3,288 ; wounded, 19,278 ; missing, 6,844. And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. At dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 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,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 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 fagot that guarded the slain, At... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...night-cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky: And thousands nad 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. Methought... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1870 - 72 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 place is little changed, Mary, The day is bright as then, The lark's loud song is in my ear, And... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 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 fagot t at guarded the slain ;... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 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. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain,... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 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. 
