 | John Wilson - 1856 - 432 pages
...moonlight plains ; Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts their tossing manes. A moment in the ravaged camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs, Their hearts are all... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 416 pages
...moonlight plains ; 'Tia life to feel the night-wind That lifts their tossing manes. A moment in the ravaged camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs, Their hearts are all... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 412 pages
...moonlight plains ; 'Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts their tossing manes. A moment in the ravaged camp— A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs, Their hearts are all... | |
 | Howard Paul - American ballads and songs - 1857 - 144 pages
...fiery barb Across the moonlit plain ; 'Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there arc by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs, Their hearts are all... | |
 | National songs - 1857 - 172 pages
...steeds. 'Tis life to guide the fiery barb Across the moonlight plain; 'Tis life to feel the night-wind A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs, Their hearts are all... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...fiery barb across the moonlight plain ; 'T is life to feel the night-wind that lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — a moment — and away, Back to the pathless forest, before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, grave men with hoary hairs : Their hearts are all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...fiery barb Aeross the moonlight plain ; 'Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp— A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day." • * • q * When Cornwallis put his troops in motion from Camden for North Carolina,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...rifles, The scampering of their steeds. 'Tis lite to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp— A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hair^, Their hearts are all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...fiery barb Across the moonlight plain ; 'Tis life to feel the night-wind That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day." • • • • * When Cornwallis put his troops in motion from Camden fof North Carolina,... | |
 | American literature - 1858 - 884 pages
...would be a tramp of horses, a sudden blow, and horses and assailants would as suddenly disappear : " À moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest Before the peep of day." Who were the men that composed Marion's famous Brigade? They were inhabitants of an isolated... | |
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Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads — The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds. 
