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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... "
The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ... - Page 117
by Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 346 pages
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...COLLINS. 1720-1756. ODE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their countiy's wishes bless'd ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while...
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The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with ...

George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...all their country's wishes blessed! When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck the hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than fancy's...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,...
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Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Greece Abridged for ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 498 pages
...after his defeat 1 CHAPTER VI. From the Retreat of Xerxes out of Greece to the Battle of My c ale* There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. 1. Ta'clt, a. silent, implied though not expressed. 11, He'lots, *. slaves. 15. Magnanim'ity,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed per, understanding, taste, That lift« him into life,...a heart To feel, and courage to redress her wrongs Ode to Emdny. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May nope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter w>d, iar manners. He was the life and soul of every private...upon it. The taste and thought of his philosophical then-. Ode ta Evening. If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...consecrate their victory!" " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest 1 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins - 1844 - 328 pages
...sink to rest, By all their country's wishes hlest ! When Spring, oith dewy fingers cold, Returns 1o deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a...forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, ., pilgrim gray, To hless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell...
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The Christian Parlor Magazine: 1844-1845, Volume 1

1844 - 504 pages
...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...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung, There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...MUCCXLVI. How sleep the bravn, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! (When Spring, wiih dewy fingers cold, [Returns to deck their hallow'd...Fancy's feet have ever trod By fairy hands their knell it rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung : There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf...
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Historical Sketches of English and American Literature: Embracing an Account ...

Robert Chambers, Royal Robbins - 1845 - 342 pages
...the liberties of their country — the last of which is as follows : — How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their cla} And Freedom shall a while repair, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a...
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