Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed ; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are... The Battle of Chancellorsville - Page 210by Samuel Penniman Bates - 1882 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Rhys Vickroy - 1894 - 296 pages
...The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. Iv. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...nor glory's peal, Shall thrill with fierce delight These breasts that never more may feel Like the fierce northern hurricane That sweeps this great plateau,... | |
| Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1894 - 268 pages
...strife The warrior's dream alarms; No braying horn nor screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. " The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...dreadful cannonade, The din and shout are past. Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom Shall dim one ray of holy light... | |
| Henry Beebee Carrington - 1894 - 448 pages
...from each brow; And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop,1 the flashing blade, The bugle's stirring blast, The...charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shout, are passed. Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal, Shall thrill with fierce delight Those breasts that... | |
| Louise Manly - 1895 - 560 pages
...washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...delight - Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight. Full many a norther's breath has swept O'er Angostura's plain, — And long the... | |
| Louise Manly - 1895 - 564 pages
...washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...delight Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight. Full many a norther's breath has swept O'er Angostura's plain, — And long the... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 376 pages
...camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...delight Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight. — Theodore O'Hara. REMEMBER THE ALAMO" had its messengers of J_ death, but... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 366 pages
...camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...delight Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight. — Theodore O'Hara. "REMEMBER THE ALAMO" "r|^HERMOPYL^E had its messengers of... | |
| Louise Manly - 1895 - 554 pages
...washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...delight Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight. Full many a norther's breath has swept O'er Angostura's plain,— And long the... | |
| Louise Manly - 1895 - 538 pages
...washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's...war's wild note nor glory's peal Shall thrill with f1erce delight Those breasts that never more may feel The rapture of the fight. Full many a norther's... | |
| William F. Cloud - 1896 - 360 pages
...forms in battle gashed Are free from anguish now. The neighing steed, the flashing blade, The trumpet's stirring blast, The charge, the dreadful cannonade,...with fierce delight Those breasts that never more shall feel The rapture of the fight. I,ike the fierce northern h-urricane That sweeps the great plateau,... | |
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