 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagini
...distance The faltering echoes come, Of the Hying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, — " The end no man can see; But \ve give him to his country, And we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rosebuds... | |
 | 1866 - 924 pagini
...In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. " And, far from over the distance, The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. " Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper — ' The end no man can seo ; But we give him to his country,... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1864 - 354 pagini
...aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet, And the grandsire speaks in a whisper: " The end no...grandsire's chair is empty, The cottage is dark and still •, There's a nameless grave in the battle-field, And a new one under the hill. And a pallid, tearless... | |
 | 1864 - 356 pagini
...pressed, In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet,...violets star the meadows, The rose-buds fringe the door, But the graudsire's chair is empty, The cottage is dark and still ; There's a nameless grave in the... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 pagini
...aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet, And the grandsire speaks in a whisper : " The end no man can see ; But we give him to his country, Ami we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rose-buds fringe the door, And... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pagini
...the faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of the trumpet, and the rattling roll of the drum. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, " The end no man...violets star the meadows, the rosebuds fringe the door, While over the grassy orchard the pink-white blossoms pour. But the grandsire's chair is empty, the... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1866 - 368 pagini
...pressed, In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come Of the flying blast of trumpet,...speaks in a whisper . " The end no man can see ; But we gave him to his country, And we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rose-buds... | |
 | William James Linton - 1878 - 470 pagini
...prest, In the first wild passion of sorrow, Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come, Of the flying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, — " The end no man can see ; But we give him to his country.... | |
 | William Winter - 1878 - 130 pagini
...prest, In the first wild passion of sorrow Against his aged breast. And far from over the distance The faltering echoes come, Of the flying blast of trumpet And the rattling roll of drum. AFTER ALL. 41 Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper, — ' The end no man can see ; But we give him... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1879 - 296 pagini
...in the first wild passion of sorrow, against his aged breast. And, far from over the distance, the faltering echoes come of the flying blast of trumpet and the rattling roll of drum. s. Then the grandsire speaks, in a whisper: ' The end no man can see; but we give him to his coimtry,... | |
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And the grandsire speaks in a whisper: " The end no man can see ; But we give him to his country, And we give our prayers to Thee." The violets star the meadows, The rose-buds fringe the door, And over the grassy orchard The pink-white blossoms pour.... 
