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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;... "
A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ... - Page 523
by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 776 pages
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Mnemotechny, Or Art of Memory ...: With a Mnemotechnic Dictionary

Pliny Miles - 1850 - 372 pages
...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...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...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...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...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,...
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Historical Sketches of North Carolina: From 1584 to 1851

John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 pages
...all their country's honors blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...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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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...THE BRAVE. WILLIAM COLLINS, bom 1720, died 1786. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all theii country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers...is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair...
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Ambrose Maclandreth; or, The religious enthusiast, by a clergyman of the ...

Ambrose Maclandreth (fict.name.) - 1851 - 180 pages
...all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their Imllow'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 grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair,...
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Historical Essays

John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pages
...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...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes a Pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair,...
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851

Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 788 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which, he said, he was also obliged to repeat, as a part...
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851

Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 802 pages
...rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Ilcturns to deek their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there." And there was another ode by the same author, which, he said, he was also obliged to repeat, as a part...
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The American Patriot: An Eulogy, Delivered on Occasion of the Funeral ...

George Duffield - 1852 - 40 pages
...their country's wishes blest 7 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Eeturns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's...Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there.31 The contrast between the early and late years of Mr. CLAY, is in some respects of the most...
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Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851

Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 pages
...cheeks, and his voice, every now and then, choked with emotion : — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, , By all their country's wishes blest ! When...By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor conies, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair, To...
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