 | 1846 - 436 pages
...rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO OUR ELDEST HEIR. — Mrs. Henry Coleridge. DEEM not that our eldest heir Wins too much of love... | |
 | 1847 - 454 pages
...country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." Here we have something beside mere rhyme. The stanzas have fire and pathos in them; and there is nothing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 904 pages
...sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fmgers cold. Returns to deck their hallowed mould. She there...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There HONOUR comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall a while repair,... | |
 | William Collins - 1848 - 158 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...painful anxiety, expecting every moment to see him ingulfed in a morass. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blessed '. When...hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than ever Fancy's feet have trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...SHAKSPEARK. Moon. 3! - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...sons relate ! EPITAPH. How sieep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall nwhile repair,... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pages
...their country's wishes blest ? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 pages
...proud of her Caswell. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest . With all their country's honors blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, And dwell a weeping hermit there." During the administration of Governor Caswell, the western district... | |
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How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung;... 
