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" THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. "
The Laurel Speaker: Heroic Classic Verse for Boys - Page 192
1908 - 192 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 91

American periodicals - 1866 - 848 pages
...Frankfort of the remains of Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista : — Transcript. The muffled dram's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now sweeps upon the wind, No troubled thought at midnight's haunts, Of...
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The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City ...

Jeremiah Lewis Diman - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 674 pages
...had stood Secure, and flourished in a civil war! Mourn not, then, overmuch for the loyal dead: — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." Of the countless dead who died fighting for the alien flag, doubtless thousands were inspired by honest...
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Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation with the Army and ...

Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1866 - 602 pages
...and his soul passed on to receive that reward which awaits those to whom duty is greater than life. " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." This is the contrast between Christian charity and barbaric hate,—not that all the people of the...
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The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through ...

John Townsend Trowbridge - Reconstruction - 1866 - 622 pages
...Spottsylvania, and which might with propriety be placed before every national soldiers' cemetery : — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." , At the alley-crossings stand the following : — " The hopes, the fears, the blood, the tears, That...
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Personal recollections of Sherman's campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas

George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 pages
...of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place for man to die, Is where he...
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Personal Recollections of Sherman's Campaigns in Georgia and the Carlinas

George Whitfield Pepper - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 1866 - 538 pages
...of to-day." We transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van. The fittest place for man to die, Is where he...
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The National Cause:its Sanctity and Grandeur: Oration at Raleigh,N.C.July 4,1867

George Whitfield Pepper - 1867 - 40 pages
...blent — they are far above the arguments of the living crowd. " On fame's eternal camping ground. Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead." There is another element of our greatness, which we commemorate to-day- The number and variety of our...
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Report of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army of the ..., Volumes 6-10

Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1877 - 564 pages
...to name would consume this evening, your eyes seek for in vain. " On fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, 'And glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." I need not here speak of the achievements of the Army of the Tennessee. The world knows its history...
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The Boys in Blue: Or, Heroes of the "rank and File". Comprising Incidents ...

Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge ("Mrs. A.H. Hoge") - United States - 1867 - 592 pages
...not let this Government of tbe people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. . " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...are spread,. And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,...
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The boys in blue; or, Heroes of the 'rank and file', incidents and ...

Jane Currie Hoge - 1867 - 504 pages
...not let this Government of the people, for the people, and by the people, perish from the earth. " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents...are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouacs of the dead." The following clipping from the New York Observer, and the pen of its editor,...
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