 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...the scorn of her companions, and the indignation of the Church. LESSON XCVI. The Soldier's Dream. . OUR bugles sang truce, — for the night-cloud had...overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. 2. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1840 - 376 pages
...to conquer our fate. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowcr'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...spot that holds thy dust. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd. And the sentinel stars set their watch in the? sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 pages
...and the following day. On the night of the 17th they took up their ground on the field of Waterloo. " Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered...overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die." But sleep was denied to Dudley, who, cold, comfortless, and disheartened, was rendered further wretched... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 pages
...that holds thy dust. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OCR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lour'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...Immortality, Or shake his trust in God ! TflE SOLDIER'S DREAM. Our bugles sang truce — for the night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch...overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to dieWhen reposing that night on my pallet of straw. By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...memorial, but sincere, Not scorned in Heaven, though little noticed here. COWPEK. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered,...overpowered, >. The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain,... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1844 - 142 pages
...classical and poetical interest with which they are invested. Our bugles sang truce — for the night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground over powered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die — When, reposing that night on my pallet... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...CCLIV.—SEPTEMBER THE ELEVENTH. The Soldier's Dream. OCR bugles sung truce, for the night cloud had lour'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When, reposing that night on my pallet of... | |
 | Quaver - Songs - 1844 - 552 pages
...another. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentmel- stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground, overpower 'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of... | |
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SOLDIER'S DREAM Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. 
