 | William Draper Swan - Readers (Elementary) - 1844 - 184 pages
...Speak, father! " once again he cried, " If 1 may yet be gone ! " And but the booming shots replied, Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still, yet brave despair 5 — And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | George Washington Bethune - English poetry - 1848 - 526 pages
...been abandoned ; and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Charles Northend - Readers (Primary) - 1866 - 172 pages
...called aloud — " Say, father, say, Tf yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay " Speak, father!" once again he cried, " If I may yet...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And louked, from that lone post,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - Elocution - 1849 - 180 pages
...father ! " once again he cried, " If I may yet be gofle ! " — And but the booming shots replied, 6. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. — 7. And shouted but once more... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father! " once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone! And"—but the booming shots replied — HKMAXS. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father !" once again he cried ; " If I may...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And looked from that lone post... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done.' He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. ' Speak, father,' once again he cried, ' If I may yet...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair: And looked from that lone post... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...father, say If yet my task is. done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. 5. " Speak, father ! " once again he cried, " If I may...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 6. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And looked from that lone... | |
 | England - Catholic youth - 1850 - 456 pages
...father, say, If yet my task is done !" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious of his son. " Speak, father !" once again he cried, " If I may yet...but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 372 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone ;" And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 6. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair, 7. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
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Speak, Father!" once again he cried, "If I may yet be gone!" —And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. 
