 Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Travis and his hundred fell Amid a thousand foemen slain! They died the Spartan's death, But not in hopeless strife — Like brothers died, and their expiring breath Was Freedom's breath of life!  Early Times in Texas - Page 78by John Crittenden Duval - 1892 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company - Texas - 1876 - 188 pages
...tramp they mount the Avail, Till numbers the defenders crush — The last was felled the fight to gain. Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Travis and his hundred fell, Amid a thousand f oemen slain. They died the Spartan's death, But not in hopeless strife ; Like brothers died — and... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Readers - 1866 - 402 pages
...defenders crush — Till falls their flag when none remain. Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Ledyard and his hundred fell Amid a thousand foemen slain....their expiring breath Was Freedom's breath of life. Ex. LXXVI.— Itf MEMORIAM* PHILIP FRENEAU. AT Eutaw Springs the valiant died : Their limbs with dust... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...they mount the wall. Till numbers the defenders crush — Till falls their flag when none remain Iй Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Travis and his hundred fell Amid a thousand foemun slain ! They died the Spartan's death, But not in hopeless strife — Like brothers died, and... | |
 | John Henry Brown, Mary Mitchel Brown - Texas - 1894 - 318 pages
...heaps with alternate layers of combustibles and partially burned. This was the " Fall of the Alamo." " They died the Spartan's death, But not in hopeless...their expiring breath Was freedom's breath of life." When the fall of the Alamo became known, families began fleeing to the East in whatever way they could... | |
 | John Harris Knowles - Railroad travel - 1898 - 218 pages
...they mount the wall, Till numbers the defenders crush. The last was felled — the fight to gain — Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Travis and...their expiring breath Was freedom's breath of life. Among the many pleasant incidents of our stay in San Antonio was the meeting with some of the students... | |
 | Eugene Cunningham Branson - Readers - 1899 - 400 pages
...die—but our expiring breath Is Freedom's breath of life I " FIFTH READER. 195 3. They come—like autumn's leaves they fall, Yet hordes on hordes they...their expiring breath Was Freedom's breath of life. DEFINITIONS.—i. Clar'i on, a kind of trumpet having a peculiarly clear, shrill tone. 2. Re veil'le... | |
 | Readers - 1902 - 424 pages
...tramp they mount the wall, Till numbers the defenders cmsh: The last was felled the fight to gain. Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Travis and...their expiring breath Was freedom's breath of life. RM POTTER. LXIV. THE THIRTEEN COLONIES. 1. THE thirteen original colonies — "The Old Thirteen," as... | |
 | English literature - 1906 - 662 pages
...Freedom's birth of life. Till numbers the defenders crush, And earth drank blood like copious rain ! Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Travis and...brothers died, and their expiring breath Was Freedom's dawn of life. REUUEN M. POTTER, THE BEGGAR'S GIFT By permission of Hie author WORN and weary and hungry-eyed,... | |
 | 1918 - 454 pages
...remain ! Well may the ruffians quake to tell How Travis and his hundred fell Amid a thousand foeman slain! They died the Spartan's death, But not in hopeless...their expiring breath Was Freedom's breath of life ! R. II. POTTEB. VENGEANCE ON SANTA ANNA" Vengeance on Santa Anna and his minions; Vile scum, up boiled... | |
 | History - 1923 - 240 pages
...fall! — we die! — but our expiring breath Is Freedom's breath of life!" They come — like autumn leaves they fall, Yet, hordes on hordes, they onward...their expiring breath Was Freedom's breath of life! MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR THE DAUGHTER OF MENDOZA 0 LEND to me, sweet nightingale, Your music by the... | |
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