 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 558 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 399 pages
...his trust in God !" 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 558 pages
...43. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. — Thomat Campbell. OUR bugles sang trace, 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,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 558 pages
...43. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. — Thnmaf 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 straw,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853
...trust in God ! CAMPBELL. 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 overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 785 pages
...her sweetest tears.' 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,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1854 - 500 pages
...to conquer our fate. 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,... | |
 | 1854 - 563 pages
...taste and regulated magnificence." scaurs OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud Lad 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,... | |
 | George Croly (Rev., ed) - 1854
...sepulchre. CAMPBELL. 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 - 1854 - 479 pages
...to conquer our fate. 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,... | |
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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. 
