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...famous odes. When spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould. * * * There honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. THOUGHTS ON THE POETS. 225 Who has not envied the sleep of the brave thus guarded and graced ? Who... | |
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...feet have ever trod ; By fairy forms their dirge is sung — By hands unseen their knell is rung; — There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! EULOGY DELIVERED AT NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 24, 1845, BY BF BUTLER, MOURNFUL but pleasant, friends and... | |
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...have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! TO OUR ELDEST HEIR. — Mrs. Henry Coleridge. DEEM not that our eldest heir Wins too much of love... | |
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...their dirge i« sung — By hands unseen their knell is rung; — There Honour comes, a pilgrim i^ray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay : -And Freedom...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! EULOGY DELIVERED AT NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 24, 1845, BY BF BUTLER, LATE ATTORN EY -GENERAL OF THE UNITED... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 Seiten
...most famous odes : When spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould. * * * * There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay. Who has not envied the sleep of the brave thus guarded and graced ? Who has not been thrilled at the... | |
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...shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall wake them from their lowly bed. 3. There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! COLLINS. 4. Each lonely scene shall thee restore, For thee the tear be duly shed ; Belov'd, till... | |
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...have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." Here we have something beside mere rhyme. The stanzas have fire and pathos in them; and there is nothing... | |
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...mouldering heap." The sod that covers men like these is " consecrated ground," and there shall honor come, " a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." In our ramble to this hallowed spot, we took pains to transcribe some of the more quaint and characteristic... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 904 Seiten
...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 gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And FREEDOM shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. 1 The following panegyric upon Sir Ralph in another... | |
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...covers men like these is " consecrated ground," and there shall honor come, " a pilsrrim fray. To bleso the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there." In our ramble to (his hallowed spot, we took pains to transcribe some of the more quaint and characteristic... | |
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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; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,... 
