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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R L Vol . VIII The Isles of Azores " The fight.
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R L Vol . VIII The Isles of Azores " The fight.
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... fight for a principle . To all their questions of duty the drum answered , " Come . " Not one regiment only , like the New York Seventh , but many marched down Broadway with men like Theodore Winthrop at their head and in their ranks ...
... fight for a principle . To all their questions of duty the drum answered , " Come . " Not one regiment only , like the New York Seventh , but many marched down Broadway with men like Theodore Winthrop at their head and in their ranks ...
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... FIGHT ABOUT THE ISLES OF AZORES THE " REVENGE " THE BATTLE OF NASEBY 142 199 200 301 449 • 453 461 467 482 490 AN HORATIAN ODE 494 BONNY DUNDEE . 499 SONNET TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL 502 GLENCOE . 503 AFTER BLEM HEIM 505 THE TRIAL OF ...
... FIGHT ABOUT THE ISLES OF AZORES THE " REVENGE " THE BATTLE OF NASEBY 142 199 200 301 449 • 453 461 467 482 490 AN HORATIAN ODE 494 BONNY DUNDEE . 499 SONNET TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL 502 GLENCOE . 503 AFTER BLEM HEIM 505 THE TRIAL OF ...
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... FIGHT · CARMEN BELLICOSUM · SONG OF MARION'S MEN THE DRUM • BATTLE - HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC BABARA FRIETCHIE . " ' STONEWALL ' JACKSON'S WAY " SHERIDAN'S RIDE • · • 533 535 552 554 555 561 578 583 583 586 588 . 590 591 594 596 NEW YORK ...
... FIGHT · CARMEN BELLICOSUM · SONG OF MARION'S MEN THE DRUM • BATTLE - HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC BABARA FRIETCHIE . " ' STONEWALL ' JACKSON'S WAY " SHERIDAN'S RIDE • · • 533 535 552 554 555 561 578 583 583 586 588 . 590 591 594 596 NEW YORK ...
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Page 526 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Page 552 - Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Page 588 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 497 - So much one man can do, That does both act and know. They can affirm his praises best, And have, though overcome...
Page 449 - FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Caux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Page 527 - Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. 'Hearts of oak!
Page 594 - The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar, Telling the battle was on once more, And Sheridan twenty miles away.
Page 199 - Wha will be a traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a Slave ? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw ; Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi
Page 526 - OF Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on.
Page 636 - Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.