| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...fagot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track : 'T was Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw; And twice ere the cock-crow I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far, I had roam'd... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 pages
...guarded the slain ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamed it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track : 'Twas Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers,... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 592 pages
...the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slaiu ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, Aud twice 'ere the cock crew I dreamt it again. Methought...the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track, Till nature and sunshine disclosed the sweet way To the home of my fathers,... | |
| John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...that guarded the slaiu ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's...dreadful array, Far, far I had roam'd on a desolate track ; 'Twas autumn — and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back.... | |
| Honor - 1856 - 94 pages
...that guarded the slain ; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's...dreadful array, Far, far I had roam'd on a desolate track : 'Twas Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcom'd me back.... | |
| Honor, Thomas Campbell - 1856 - 108 pages
...sang truce — for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roam'd on a desolate track : 'Twas Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers, that welcom'd me back.... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...fagot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision 1 saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track : 'Twas autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way To the home of my fathers,... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - 1856 - 300 pages
...faggot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's dreadful array, Far, far I had roamed on a desolate track ; 'Twas autumn — and sunshine arose on the way, To the home of my fathers... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1857 - 426 pages
...fagot that guarded the slain, U the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw ; And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. Methought from the battle-field's...desolate track, Till Autumn — and sunshine arose on the way To the house of my fathers, that welcomed me back, I flew to the pleasant fields, travers'd... | |
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