 THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.  Poems of American Patriotism - Pagina 106editat de - 1882 - 285 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1866 - 848 pagini
...Frankfort of the remains of Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista : — Transcript. The muffled dram's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more...meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 538 pagini
...children of the people, the grand chivalry of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van. The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 pagini
...children of the people, the grand chivalry of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - 1866 - 622 pagini
...propriety be placed before every national soldiers' cemetery : — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." , At the alley-crossings stand the following : — " The hopes, the fears, the blood, the tears, That... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 674 pagini
...in a civil war! Mourn not, then, overmuch for the loyal dead: — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread ; And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." Of the countless dead who died fighting for the alien flag, doubtless thousands were inspired by honest... | |
 | Bartholomew S. De Forest - 1866 - 338 pagini
...James rivers. Our loss that day did not exceed three thousand men in killed, wounded and missing. " In fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn tread The bivouac of the dead." • The battle of Drury's Bluff will be long remembered and talked... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 564 pagini
...Fairchild and the many others who but to name would consume this evening, your eyes seek for in vain. " On fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents...guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." I need not here speak of the achievements of the Army of the Tennessee. The world knows its history... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - 1867 - 40 pagini
...they sleep — in one red burial blent — they are far above the arguments of the living crowd. " On fame's eternal camping ground. Their silent tents...guards with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead." There is another element of our greatness, which we commemorate to-day- The number and variety of our... | |
 | Jane Currie Hoge - 1867 - 504 pagini
...people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,... | |
 | Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge ("Mrs. A.H. Hoge") - 1867 - 592 pagini
...people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. . " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread,. And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,... | |
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