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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... "
Select specimens of English poetry - Page 117
by Edward Hughes - 1856
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The New-England Magazine, Volume 5

Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - Literature - 1833 - 550 pages
...fortunes and ruined constitutions, sunk into an early grave. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, With all their country's wishes blest. 'When spring, with...dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. There Honor cornea, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf, that wraps their clay ; — And Freedom shall...
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Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal ...

James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 528 pages
...hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. " By Fairy-hands their knell is rung-, By Forms unseen their dirge...bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom dial! a while repair To dwell, a weeping hermit, there." COLLINS. Again ; what a quantity of thought...
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Memoirs and Letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste, Bart, Volume 2

Sir William Hoste (1st bart), Lady Harriet Walpole Hoste - 1833 - 348 pages
...father, ever your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. 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 hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands...
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Memoirs and Letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste, Volume 2

Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 352 pages
...father, ever your affectionate son, W. HOSTE. BOOK V. FROM 1814 TO 1828. 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 hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands...
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Practical Notes Made During a Tour in Canada: And a Portion of the United ...

Adam Fergusson - Canada - 1833 - 424 pages
...ever interested my feelings more, nor could I help reciting aloud — " 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 hallow'd mould, She there will dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod." I think Collins...
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Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in ...

Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...1. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blessed ! When Spring,-with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed...dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. 2. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man: Or, The Progress of Human Life. Illustrated ...

John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...written on the extinction of the REBELLION in 1746, must not be omitted — 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 hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod! By Fairy hands...
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1835 - 592 pages
...soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity."1 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There HOKOÜR comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall a while...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...scenes from every future ODE, Written in the beginning of the year 1746. 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 ! ODE TO MERCY. STROPHE. O THOU, who sit'st a smiling bride By valour's armed and awful side, Gentlest...
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An Oration Delivered Before the Newburyport Artillery Company Upon Their ...

George Lunt - Fourth of July orations - 1836 - 36 pages
...guardians as well as the inheritors of their glory, — How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with...sweeter sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod ! By spirit hands their knell is rung, — By forms unseen their dirge is sung, — There Honor comes, a...
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