 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...  Beauties of the British Poets ... - Page 127by George Croly - 1850 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Collins - 1827 - 234 pages
...with dewy fingers cold. Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod 5 Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their...pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; 10 And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! ODE TO MERCY. STROPHE. O THOU,... | |
 | Night watch - 1828 - 596 pages
...grave when the earth was crumbled over his son's coffin." CHAPTER VII. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. " THE burial of my poor shipmate being finished,... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 104 pages
...ode, and this turn of it.• When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is snng ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey. To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1830 - 736 pages
...of honour's ground. " Here sleep the brave, who sunk to rest, By all their country's wishes btest: When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod." Tt is indeed (to pursue the fine strain of Collins) as " a weeping hermit," that Fancy must repair... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...yields no urnaH gratification. When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's...forms unseen their dirge is sung ! There HONOUR comes, af rilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall awhile repair To dwell... | |
 | Joseph Brown Ladd, W. B. Chittenden - 1832 - 252 pages
...your slumbers in the dark house appointed for all living. " So sleep the brave who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest : When spring, with...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,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...tale. ODE TO THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...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 awhile repair,... | |
 | John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...with fancy, grandeur with simplicity, and romance with reality : — ' 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-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There honor comes, a pilgrim... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...all their country's wishes blest ! When spring with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd 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... | |
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