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Page 38
... sleeping camp , Afar through the river's fog and damp , That showed no flicker , nor waning lamp , Nor wasted bivouac fires . And I saw a phantom army come , With never a sound of fife or drum , But keeping time to a throbbing hum Of ...
... sleeping camp , Afar through the river's fog and damp , That showed no flicker , nor waning lamp , Nor wasted bivouac fires . And I saw a phantom army come , With never a sound of fife or drum , But keeping time to a throbbing hum Of ...
Page 64
... 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 ! I hear the sound of the different missiles , the short ...
... 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 ! I hear the sound of the different missiles , the short ...
Page 70
... sleeping army , the fields ' and woods ' dim outline , The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire , the silence Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving , The shrubs and trees ( as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily ...
... sleeping army , the fields ' and woods ' dim outline , The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire , the silence Like a phantom far or near an occasional figure moving , The shrubs and trees ( as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily ...
Page 74
... houses ? no sleepers must sleep in those beds , No bargainers ' bargains by day - no brokers or speculators would they continue ? Would the talkers be talking ? would the singer attempt 74 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
... houses ? no sleepers must sleep in those beds , No bargainers ' bargains by day - no brokers or speculators would they continue ? Would the talkers be talking ? would the singer attempt 74 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
Page 88
... light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep , Full many a fathom deep , By thy wild and stormy steep , Elsinore . Brave hearts ! to Britain's pride Once so faithful and 88 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
... light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep , Full many a fathom deep , By thy wild and stormy steep , Elsinore . Brave hearts ! to Britain's pride Once so faithful and 88 BATTLE POEMS AND PATRIOTIC VERSES.
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