How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is... Annual Register of World Events - Page 2411800Full view - About this book
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...their country's wilhes bleft ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there (hall drefs a fweeter fod, Than Fancy's...feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rang. By forms unfeen their dirge is fung; There Honour cotnes, a pilgrim gray. To blefs the turf that... | |
| Helen Maria Williams - Correctional institutions - 1795 - 292 pages
...wifliesbleft ? When Spring with dewy fingers cold Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there ihall drefs a fweeter fod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod : By fairy hands their knell is rung, By fairy forms their dirge is fung : There Honour comes a pilgrim grey To blefs the turf that wraps their... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1798 - 458 pages
...country's wifties bleft ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there (hall drefs a fweeter fod, Than Fancy's...knell is rung, By forms unfeen their dirge is fung: Then Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To blefs the turf that wraps their clayj And Freedom fhall awhile... | |
| British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...blefs'd 1 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there mall drefs a fweeter fod, Than Fancy's feet have ever trod....knell is rung, By forms unfeen their dirge is fung : Then Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To blefs the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom fhall awhile... | |
| Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1799 - 468 pages
...country's wifhes bleft ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there (hall drefs a fweeter fod, Than Fancy's...trod. By Fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unfeeli their dirge is fung: Then Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To blefs the turf that wraps their... | |
| History - 1800 - 596 pages
...wiihes bleft J When fpring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there mall drefs a fweeter fod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod....comes a pilgrim grey, To blefs the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom ihall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. The ROOKERY. OH thou... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 600 pages
...bleft ,' When fpring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there ftiall drefs a fweeter fod, Than fancy's feet have ever trod....comes a pilgrim grey, To blefs the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom ftiall awhile repair, \ To dwell a weeping hermit there. \ The ROOKERY. OH... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mold, She there (hall drefs a fwecter fod, 'f han Fancy's feet have ever trod. By Fairy hands their...their dirge is fung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grty. To blefä the turf that wraps their cla/, And Freedom fhall a while repair, To dweH a weeping... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...there dull drefs a fweeter fod, Than Fancy's fcct have ever trod. By Fairy hands tneir knell if rangy By forms unfeen their dirge is fung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To blcfs the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom mall a while repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there... | |
| Richard Warner - Bath (England) - 1801 - 362 pages
...with dewy fingers cold, " Returns to deck their hallowed mould, " She then shall dress a sweeter sod " Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. " By fairy hands their knell is rung ; " By forms unseen their dirge is sung; " There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, " To bless the turf that wraps their... | |
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