 | International peace society - 232 pages
...endless groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for morcy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns;... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pages
...dead. To him must be assigned " the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, The tumult of each sacked and burning village, The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of carnage, The wail of famine in beleagered towns. The bursting shell,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...each sacked and burning village; The shout, that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered...The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, 10 The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The...that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ! The bursting shell, the gateway... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests, upon their teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. 5 The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The...that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ! The bursting shell, the gateway... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The...that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; The bursting shell, the... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The...that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; The bursting shell, the gateway... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The...that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleagured towns. The bursting shell, the gateway... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...dreadful din, And Aztec priests, upon the teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums, made of ser pent' s skin. The tumult of each sacked and burning village, The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. The bursting shell,... | |
 | Gems - 1850 - 204 pages
...dreadful din ; And Aztec priests upon their teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums made of serpents' skin. The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The...that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. The bursting shell, the gateway... | |
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The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder The diapason of the cannonade. 
