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... breath- For me they suffered - for me they bled : - O Mother's love , I am dumb till death ; I could speak were I cold and dead . Thou knowest how often I strove to break The fetters 22 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
... breath- For me they suffered - for me they bled : - O Mother's love , I am dumb till death ; I could speak were I cold and dead . Thou knowest how often I strove to break The fetters 22 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
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... breath is quickening - the dry bones of chivalry . Arthur rides again to battle ; there is Galahad the pure ; Loyal Lancelot , gallant Gawain , fight with us . The End is sure . Sure the victory . Else how vain - imagined are 32 BATTLE ...
... breath is quickening - the dry bones of chivalry . Arthur rides again to battle ; there is Galahad the pure ; Loyal Lancelot , gallant Gawain , fight with us . The End is sure . Sure the victory . Else how vain - imagined are 32 BATTLE ...
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... breath with fear and dread ; For into the square , with a brazen tread , There rode a figure whose stately head O'erlooked the review that morning , That never bowed from its firm - set seat When the living column passed its feet , Yet ...
... breath with fear and dread ; For into the square , with a brazen tread , There rode a figure whose stately head O'erlooked the review that morning , That never bowed from its firm - set seat When the living column passed its feet , Yet ...
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... breath with incense sweet ; Or I might say , when the sunset burned The old farm gable , he thought it turned The milk that fell like a babbling flood Into the milk - pail red as blood ! Or how he fancied the hum of bees Were bullets ...
... breath with incense sweet ; Or I might say , when the sunset burned The old farm gable , he thought it turned The milk that fell like a babbling flood Into the milk - pail red as blood ! Or how he fancied the hum of bees Were bullets ...
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... breath of my infant , There in the room as I wake from sleep this vision presses upon me : The engagement opens there and then in fantasy unreal , The skirmishers begin , they crawl cautiously ahead , I hear the irregular snap ! snap ...
... breath of my infant , There in the room as I wake from sleep this vision presses upon me : The engagement opens there and then in fantasy unreal , The skirmishers begin , they crawl cautiously ahead , I hear the irregular snap ! snap ...
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Arethusa arm'd arms army array banner battle beat blast blood boys breath Bret Harte bugles blown Cannon charge cheer Christ or Nietzsche Clusium crest cried death deep dread drum England's dead eyes F. W. Bourdillon fathers fell field fierce fight fire flag fought gallant glory hand Hark hath hear heard Hearts of oak heaven helmet helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre Herminius Highland laddie hills homes of England Horatius horse John Burns King land Lars Porsena light look Lord loud Marmion morn mountain Navarre ne'er never night noble o'er pibroch pride proud quoth rage roar rode rolling rose round rush Sextus shield shout slain smile soldier song sound spake spears stand stood sweet sword tears thee Thomas Campbell thou thousand thunder twas victory vigil voice W. E. Henley Walt Whitman waves wild winds do blow wounded