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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... "
Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page 163
1817
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The Poetical Works of William Collins, Volume 1

William Collins, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Sir Egerton Brydges, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1830 - 234 pages
...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...knell is 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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 100, Part 1; Volume 147

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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 100

English essays - 1830 - 714 pages
...in the middle of the litde plat of honour's ground. " Here sleep the brave, who sank to rest, By ill their country's wishes blest : When Spring, with dewy...fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She tbere shall dress a sweeter snd Then Fancy's feet have ever trod." It i» indeed (to pursue the fine...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...When Spring, with dewy finder!* cold. Returns i<> <lrrk ilieir hallowed mould, She there phall dross k Exchange thoir knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge, is sung; Тоете Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages: Or, The Progress of Human Life

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...knell is 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...
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The Literary Remains of Joseph Brown Ladd, M. D.

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...knell 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 a...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

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...knell 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...
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Literary and Religious Sketches

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...
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The Christian Psalmist: Or, Hymns Selected and Original. With an ...

James Montgomery - Hymns, English - 1832 - 484 pages
...reality : — « How sleep the hrave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! \Vhen Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their...sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. • By fairy-hands their knell is rnng, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim...
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The Country Gentleman's Magazine

Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 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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