 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 דפים
...Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. At Home in Heaven. Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky. The Battle of Alexandria. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1869 - 538 דפים
...expressed by the loss of his hero, ROLAND GRAEME : — " He wko fights well must have fame in life or honor in death "— one of those men MONTGOMERY...passed away amid the turmoil of the tempest ; in his qase a tempest of the elements as well as of men, as if nature, in convulsion, sympathized with the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 דפים
...Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. At Home in Heaven. Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky. The Battle of Alexandria. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or... | |
 | J. M. Morphis - 1874 - 620 דפים
...city cemetery across the San Pedro.'' Thus perished the heroes of the Alamo ! of whom the poet says: " Gashed with honorable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie ; Though they Ml, they fell like stars, Streaming splendor through thesky.' Remembrance of their devoted patriotism... | |
 | J. M. Morphis - 1875 - 634 דפים
...city cemetery across the San Pedro." Thus perished the heroes of the Alamo! of whom the poet says: " Gashed with honorable scars, Low in Glory's lap they...fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendor through thesky.' Remembrance of their devoted patriotism has no doubt inspired Texans with generous emulation... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 דפים
...breath (For the good man never dies).1 The Wanderer of Swiltterland. Part v. Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie ; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky. The Battle of Alexandria. Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea. The... | |
 | 1877 - 362 דפים
...there hath passed away a GLORY from the earth. WORDSWORTH, Immortality. — Gashed with honourable scars, Low in GLORY'S lap they lie ; Though they fell, they fell like stars. Streaming splendour through the sky. Glory. — Go where GLORY waits thee ; But, while fame elates thee, . Oh... | |
 | Imperial pocket reader - 1878 - 202 דפים
...tell } Oh 't would cleave the womb of night, And awake the dead that fell ! Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie ; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky. Yet shall Memory mourn that day, When, with expectation pale Of her soldier... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1879 - 572 דפים
...to tell, Oh, 'twould cleave the womb of night, And awake the dead that fell ! Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie ; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky. Yet shall Memory mourn that day, When with expectation pale Of her soldier... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 דפים
...strains that reach The Majesty on high. " The Battle of Alexandria " contains this notable excerpt : Gashed with honorable scars Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell they fell like stars, Streammg splendor through the sky. The poem which starts with the two famous lines next quoted was... | |
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Yet shall Memory mourn that day, When, with expectation pale, Of her soldier far away The poor widow hears the tale. In imagination wild, She shall wander o'er this plain, Rave, — and bid her orphan child Seek his sire among the slain. 
