 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New Jersey - 1868 - 604 pages
...blow, Aims at THEE the fatal blow. Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers : Strew, ye fair,...way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers ; with the deepest emotion. After receiving the salutations of the citizens, he handed the following... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...foe, Aims again the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and Matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save. Build for thee triumphal bowers, Strew, ye fair, his...with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers." At Elizabethtown point he embarked in an elegant barge, rowed by thirteen men, and as he passed the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 456 pages
...Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Yirgins fair, and mothers grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his...with flowers ! Strew your hero's way with flowers." 'V/ith joyous greetings at every step, Washington proceeded ihiongh New Jersey, over which he had once... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Grottoes (Va.) - 1871 - 466 pages
...Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair, and mothers grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers I Strew your hero's way with flowers." With joyous greetings at every step, Washington proceeded thionghNew... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 460 pages
...Aims at thoe the fatal blow. " Virgins fair, and mothers grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers I Strew your hero's way with flowers." starved, half-naked army, before a closely pursuing foe ; and... | |
 | John O. Raum - Trenton (N.J.) - 1871 - 488 pages
...at thee the fatal blow. " ' Virgins fair and matrons grave — Those thy conquering arms did save; Build for thee triumphal bowers, Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers — Strew your hero's way with flowers.1 And at the end of the last line, the flowers were strewn before him." ... On the north or... | |
 | John O. Raum - Trenton (N.J.) - 1871 - 480 pages
...fatal blow. " ' Virgins fair and matrons grave — Those thy conquering arms did save; Build for thec triumphal bowers, Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers — Strew your hero's way with flowers.' And at the end of the last line, the flowers were strewn befc him." On the north or Trenton side of... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - Indians of North America - 1872 - 902 pages
...arch, the girls began to sing a beautiful ode composed for the occasion, and with the last lines : " Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers, Strew your hero's way with flowers," they scattered flowers from baskets in their hands, upon the path where the Father of his Country was... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Indians of North America - 1875 - 408 pages
...— Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers : Strew, ye fair,...with flowers ! — Strew your hero's way with flowers ! " Suiting the action to the word, they strewed before him the flowers from their baskets. . As he... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - History - 1875 - 424 pages
...Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, • Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers : Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers 1 — Strew your hero's way with flowers ! " Suiting the action to the word, they strewed before him... | |
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Welcome, mighty chief, once more, Welcome to this grateful shore: Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers; Strew,... 
