 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1910 - 380 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... | |
 | Randolph Harrison McKim - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1910 - 406 pages
...superb but fruitless prowess they displayed on so many fields, the words of the poet recur to our minds: "In vain, alas! in vain ye gallant few, From rank to rank your volleyed thunders flew." But was it in vain? I do not believe it. It is true that their flashing bayonets... | |
 | Randolph Harrison McKim - U. S. - 1910 - 410 pages
...superb but fruitless prowess they displayed on so many fields, the words of the poet recur to our minds: "In vain, alas! in vain ye gallant few, From rank to rank your volleyed thunders flew." But was it in vain? I do not believe it. It is true that their flashing bayonets... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 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...charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm. 3757 Campbell : Fl. of Hope. Pt. i. Line 367, My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, —... | |
 | Robert Milton Howard - Georgia - 1912 - 376 pages
...leave them." Well may our matchless leaders have said to their shattered ranks on disbanding them: "In vain, alas, in vain ye gallant few, From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew; O, bloodlest picture in the book of time, The South fell, unwept without a crime;... | |
 | History - 1914 - 334 pages
...murmuring sounds along their banners fly, 'Revenge or death,' the watchword and reply; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm. And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm. Before Kosciuszko could complete his preparations to ride over this allied army rough-shod, they disappeared... | |
 | 1915 - 328 pages
...murmuring sounds along their banners fly, 'Revenge or death," the watchword and reply; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm. And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm. Before Kosciuszko could complete his preparations to ride over this allied army rough-shod, they disappeared... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 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 a... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 pages
...— the watchword and reply; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, . And the loud focsin tolled their last alarm. In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew. O ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a... | |
 | L. M. Montgomery - Fiction - 1997 - 522 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! Poor Poland fell, unwept, without... | |
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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... 
