 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 pagina’s
...sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest I When spring with dewy ringers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there...their dirge is sung, There honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Salomon Gessner - 1814 - 678 pagina’s
...* This poetic idea Collins has clothed in the language of poetry in the following beautiful lines : When spring with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. T. Despair of Cain. Cain, urged by despair, wandered in the recesses of the neighbouring thicket. He... | |
 | William Collins - 1815 - 118 pagina’s
...who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes hlest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returus to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress...trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms uuseen their dirge is sang ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To hless the turf that wraps their... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagina’s
...scene from every future § 150. Ode. Written in the year 1746. COLLIKS. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ! When...is 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 a while repair,... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1816 - 494 pagina’s
...history shall transmit to future ages the record of their deathless fame. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is cung. Here honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And freedom shall... | |
 | 1817 - 732 pagina’s
...brave men who have sacrificed their lives in the Cause of Britain. " How sleep the Brave, who sink to rest, By all their Country's wishes blest ! When...sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod, By fairy bands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey,... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pagina’s
...latter, to excite sentiments of compassion in favour of those whn became a samfice to public justice. She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. TO MERCT. O THOU, who sit'st a smiling bride By Valour's arm'd and awful side, Gentlest of sky-born... | |
 | Frances D'Aubigne - 1819 - 670 pagina’s
...wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She then shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; Then HONOUR comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall awhile... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pagina’s
...I, O Fear, will dwell with thee .' 15 ODE. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...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 awhile... | |
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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... 
