| Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...humanity. CHAPTER XXVI. " Our bugle sang truce, for the nigbt-eloud had lower'd, And the sentinel-stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered— The weary to deep, and the wounded to die : When reposing that night on my pallet of... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...— Fuller's Prudentia. DREAM. THE SOLDIER'S. Our bugles sang truce, for the night cloud had lower'd. And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1828 - 258 pages
...that holds thy dust. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...bounds to human wo*. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM, Our bugles sang truce — for the night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 250 pages
...conclusion of hostilities. THE SOLDIER'S DREAF OUR bugles sang truce—for the night-cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1830 - 248 pages
...conclusion of hoctililles. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...sustains. THE SOLDIER S DREAM. Campbell. OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing...that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fagot that guarded the slain; At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning... | |
| 1831 - 272 pages
...are sailors." THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. Campbell. OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowr'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower 'd, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die — When reposing that night on my pallet of... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...sustains THE SOLDIER'S DREAM.—CmnplieK. OUR bugles sang truce—for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered— The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. At the dead of the night a sweet vision... | |
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