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Page viii
... dread . Oh where and oh where , is your Highland laddie gone ? Oh ! wherefore came ye forth , in triumph from the North Once more into the breach , dear friends , once more On Linden , when the sun was low Our bugles sang truce - for ...
... dread . Oh where and oh where , is your Highland laddie gone ? Oh ! wherefore came ye forth , in triumph from the North Once more into the breach , dear friends , once more On Linden , when the sun was low Our bugles sang truce - for ...
Page 38
... 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 now rode steadily up ...
... 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 now rode steadily up ...
Page 77
... dread . " O , they listened , looked , and waited , Till their hope became despair ; And the sobs of low bewailing Filled the pauses of their prayer . Then up spake a Scottish maiden , With her ear unto the ground : " Dinna ye hear it ...
... dread . " O , they listened , looked , and waited , Till their hope became despair ; And the sobs of low bewailing Filled the pauses of their prayer . Then up spake a Scottish maiden , With her ear unto the ground : " Dinna ye hear it ...
Page 94
... dread Winter ! who beset , Flinging round van and rear his ghastly net , That host , when from the regions of the Pole They shrunk , insane amibition's barren goal- That host , as huge and strong as e'er defied 94 BATTLE POEMS AND ...
... dread Winter ! who beset , Flinging round van and rear his ghastly net , That host , when from the regions of the Pole They shrunk , insane amibition's barren goal- That host , as huge and strong as e'er defied 94 BATTLE POEMS AND ...
Page 114
... dread horn , On Fontarabian echoes borne , That to King Charles did come , When Roland brave , and Olivier , And every paladin and peer , On Roncesvalles died ! Such blast might warn them , not in vain , To quit the plunder of the slain ...
... dread horn , On Fontarabian echoes borne , That to King Charles did come , When Roland brave , and Olivier , And every paladin and peer , On Roncesvalles died ! Such blast might warn them , not in vain , To quit the plunder of the slain ...
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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