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Page vii
... cheer up , my lads , ' tis to glory we steer Down the picket guarded lane . · England , with all thy faults I love thee still Ev'n as I thought of you , your soul had sped . Fair stood the wind for France . First O songs for a prelude ...
... cheer up , my lads , ' tis to glory we steer Down the picket guarded lane . · England , with all thy faults I love thee still Ev'n as I thought of you , your soul had sped . Fair stood the wind for France . First O songs for a prelude ...
Page 37
... cheers of people who came to greet , And the thousand details that to repeat Would only my verse encumber , — Till I fell in a reverie , sad and sweet , And then to a fitful slumber . When , lo ! in a vision I seemed to stand In the ...
... cheers of people who came to greet , And the thousand details that to repeat Would only my verse encumber , — Till I fell in a reverie , sad and sweet , And then to a fitful slumber . When , lo ! in a vision I seemed to stand In the ...
Page 46
... " " Pass in , Sanitary ! " In such cheer it struggled on Till the battle front was won , Then the car , its journey done , Lo ! was stationary ; And where bullets whistling fly , Came the sadder , 46 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
... " " Pass in , Sanitary ! " In such cheer it struggled on Till the battle front was won , Then the car , its journey done , Lo ! was stationary ; And where bullets whistling fly , Came the sadder , 46 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
Page 58
... cheers of the crowd for their favourites , The artillery , the silent cannons bright as gold , drawn along , rumble lightly over the stones , ( Silent cannons , soon to cease your silence , Soon unlimber'd to begin the red business ) ...
... cheers of the crowd for their favourites , The artillery , the silent cannons bright as gold , drawn along , rumble lightly over the stones , ( Silent cannons , soon to cease your silence , Soon unlimber'd to begin the red business ) ...
Page 87
... cheer the Dane , To our cheering sent us back : — : - Their shots along the deep slowly boom : - Then ceased - and all is wail , As they strike the shattered sail Or , in conflagration pale , Light the gloom . Out spoke the victor then ...
... cheer the Dane , To our cheering sent us back : — : - Their shots along the deep slowly boom : - Then ceased - and all is wail , As they strike the shattered sail Or , in conflagration pale , Light the gloom . Out spoke the victor then ...
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