 | British poets - 1822 - 270 страници
...their country's wishes bless'd! 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 Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1825 - 482 страници
...pathos 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...a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes* a pilgrim... | |
 | 1863 - 538 страници
...immortality. Perhaps there was never anybody of men to whom Collins' beautiful ode is more applicable — " By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen...the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! " Begging, therefore, to be excused from any direct... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1826 - 464 страници
...romance with reality: — " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes bleat ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By' fairy-hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim... | |
 | Night watch - 1828 - 596 страници
...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...rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair... | |
 | William Collins - 1828 - 104 страници
...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... | |
 | William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - 1830 - 234 страници
...their country's wishes bless'd ! 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 Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair,... | |
 | 1830 - 736 страници
...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 - 1831 - 322 страници
...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...rung, By 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... | |
 | Joseph Brown Ladd, W. B. Chittenden - 1832 - 252 страници
...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...a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there."* * Collins. Vv174 But we turn to take a view of those worthy authors of our independence who have survived... | |
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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 rung;... 
