 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 614 Seiten
...glory to that valiant band, The honored saviours of the land ! 0, few and weak their numbers were, — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave...them the victory. They left the ploughshare in the mold, Their flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn, half-garnered,... | |
 | Annie R. White Mell ("Mrs. P. H. Mell".) - 1904 - 50 Seiten
...91 years. Sarah May 13th, 1851, Aged 87 years. CHARLES HOOKS. "O few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men But to their God they gave their prayer And rushed to battle then." Charles Hooks is buried in Montgomery county, about twenty miles from the city of Montgomery, in a... | |
 | Alabama Historical Society - 1904 - 654 Seiten
...91 years. Sarah May 13th, 1851, Aged 87 years. CHARLES HOOKS. "O few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men But to their God they gave their prayer And rushed to battle then." Charles Hooks is buried in Montgomery county, about twenty miles from the city of Montgomery, in a... | |
 | 1904 - 562 Seiten
...glory to that valiant band. The honored saviours of the laud ! O, few and weak their numbers were, — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, And rushed lo battle then. The God of battles heard their cry, And sent to them the victory. The sickle in the... | |
 | John Raymond Howard - 1905 - 350 Seiten
...glory to that valiant band, The honored saviors of the land ! Oh, few and weak their numbers were, — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave...half-garnered, on the plain, And mustered, in their simple dress, For wrongs to seek a stern redress, To right those wrongs, come weal, come woe, To perish, or... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 410 Seiten
...send, and time is everything. Please act in view of this. They left their ploughshares in the mold, The flocks and herds without a fold; The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn half garnered on the plain, And, mustered in their simple dress, For wrongs to seek a stern redress;... | |
 | Bridget Ellen Burke - 1909 - 264 Seiten
...glory to that valiant band, The honored saviors of the land ! O, few and weak their number were, — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, The God of battles heard their cry, And sent to them the victory. They left the plowshare in the meld,... | |
 | Sophie E. Eastman - 1912 - 342 Seiten
...old-fashioned churchyards, prove the truth of the poet's description — "They left the plough share in the mould, Their flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn, half garnered, on the plain And mustered in their simple dress, For wrongs to seek a stern redress,... | |
 | Robert Milton Howard - 1912 - 376 Seiten
...alas, most of them are there yet in warriors' graves. "They left the ploughshares in the mold, The flocks and herds without a fold; The sickle in the unshorn grain, The corn half garnered on the plain, And mustered in their simple dress, For wrongs to seek a strong redress,... | |
 | Daniel Sullivan Henderson, Peronneau Finley Henderson - 1922 - 240 Seiten
...Colonial lines truly expresses the Red Shirt determination: "They left the plowshare in the mold, The flocks and herds without a fold, The sickle in the unshorn grain. The corn half garnered on the plain; And mustered in their red shirt dress, For wrongs, to seek a stern redress;... | |
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Oh, few and weak their numbers were — A handful of brave men ; But to their God they gave their prayer, And rushed to battle then. 
