 | Henry Charles Finch Mason - 1903 - 194 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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 666 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 ;... | |
 | Harold Edgeworth Butler - 1903 - 248 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 ;... | |
 | E. F. Hollibaugh - 1903 - 934 pages
...night clouds had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. Thousands had sunk on the ground, overpowered — The weary to sleep and the wounded to die." After the close of the war Mr. Page was honorably discharged and returned to Illinois. January i, 1866,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 692 pages
...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 ;... | |
 | 1904 - 774 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 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 ;... | |
 | Charles John Cornish - 1904 - 310 pages
...however, before those lines of Campbell's came most forcibly to my mind — When thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die — though we had not even the comfort of a pallet of straw. " Moved our camp from the battle-field... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 352 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. 4 When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain... | |
 | United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 1066 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. LEE'S design was manifest. The forcing of his cavalry westward may have interrupted, but did not alter... | |
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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. 
