 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 pages
...DEATH ! the watchword and reply : Then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few, From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell — unwept — without... | |
 | mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 296 pages
...death,—the watchword and reply: Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew; Oh! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Children's Literature, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...DEATH ! the watchword and reply : Then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few, From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia-f ell — unwept —without... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...watch-word and Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, [alarm! — And the loud tocsin tolled their last In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - Elocution - 1881 - 152 pages
...— the watchword and reply; then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm, and the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! from rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew ; — oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without... | |
 | James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881 - 232 pages
...the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin 2 tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas ! — in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew :— Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time ! Sarmn tia, 3 fell, unwept, without... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...but dreadful as the storm ; Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge or death — the watchword and reply, Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud toesin toll'd their last alarm. Campbell, ri.ufH. 'Tis home-felt pleasure prompts the patriot's sigh,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English literature - 1882 - 420 pages
...murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death, — the watch-word and reply; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin...your volley'd thunder flew: — Oh, bloodiest picture iu the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime; Found not a generous friend, a pitying... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...— the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : — Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...death, the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew : Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time Sarmatia fell unwept, without a... | |
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Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm; Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death... 
