 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 pages
...Will not count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." 'All quiet along the...watchfires are gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night-wind Through the forest-leaves softly is creeping ; While stars up above, with their glittering... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 362 pages
...in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, his death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac to-night,...watch-fires, are gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night-wind Through the forest-leaves softly is creeping ; While stars up above, with their glittering... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1886 - 352 pages
...in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, his death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac to-night,...watch-fires, are gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night-wind Through the forest-leaves softly is creeping ; While stars up above, with their glittering... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men. Moaning out, all alone, his death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac to-night,...rays of the clear autumn moon, Or the light of the watch-flres, are gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night-wind Through the forest-leaves softly... | |
 | 1886 - 562 pages
...count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men Moaning out all alune the death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac to-night, Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreamTheir tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon Or the light of the watch-fires are gleaming.... | |
 | Cornelia Phillips Spencer - 1888 - 292 pages
...service, extending beyond the bounds of this life, cannot be estimated here. RECITATION. THE PICKET-GUARD. ALL quiet along the Potomac to-night, Where the soldiers...moon Or the light of the watch-fires are gleaming. There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread As he tramps from the rock to the fountain, And he... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1889 - 598 pages
...Will not count in the news of the battle ; Not an officer lost — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." All quiet along the...peacefully dreaming ; Their tents in the rays of the clear f unmm moon, Or the light of the watch-fires, nre gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night wind... | |
 | Louis Stanley Young, Henry Davenport Northrop - 1899 - 632 pages
...no douid, Fer dot Dewey man vill got you you doan'd vatch ouid ! GV HOBART. THE ARMY'S NIGHT-GUARD. THE soldiers lie peacefully dreaming, Their tents...rays of the clear Autumn moon, Or the light of the watch fires are gleaming, A tremulous sigh as the gentle night wind Thro' the forest leaves slowly... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 pages
...Not an officer lost—only one of the men, All quiet along the Potomac to-night, Where the sokliers lie peacefully dreaming; Their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon, Or the light of the watch-fire, are gleaming. A tremulous sigh of the gentle night-wind Through the forest leaves softly... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1889 - 614 pages
...dreaming ; Their tents, in the rays of the clear vutumn moon. Or the light of the watch-fires, »re gleaming. A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night wind Through the forest leaves softly is ereeping ; While stars up above, with their glittering eyes, Keep guard — for the army is sleeping.... | |
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Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing: a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost, — only one of the men, Moaning... 
