 WE were not many — we who stood Before the iron sleet that day; Yet many a gallant spirit would Give half his years if he but could Have been with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single...  Southern Literary Messenger - Page 4671858Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...recollection, To cheer the hours of lonely toil. And chase away dejection. CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN. MONTERE T. WE were not many, — we who stood Before the iron...many a gallant spirit would Give half his years if but he could Have been with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot It hailed In deadly drifts... | |
 | Henry Montgomery - Biography & Autobiography - 1847 - 398 pages
...of Monterey, the following is probably the most heart-stirring and eloquent : STORMING OF MONTEREY. We were not many — we who stood Before the iron...— Yet many a gallant spirit would Give half his head if he but could Have been with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American poetry - 1850 - 246 pages
...Fends toi Brave Crillou ! Nous avons comhattu, ettn n' yetois pas."— Lettre de Heari IV. a Crttlm. WE were not many— we who stood Before the iron sleet that day — Yet many a gallant spirit woold Give half his years if he then could Have heen with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the... | |
 | Henry Montgomery - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1850 - 522 pages
...nrnnv—we who stood Before fne iron •»;•? that dayYet many a gallant spirit would Give half his head if he but could Have been with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drills of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round... | |
 | Henry Montgomery - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1850 - 504 pages
...many — we who stood Before fne iron B&^ that dayYet many a gallant spirit would Give half his head if he but could Have been with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...your puny hands, As the tempest scorns a chain. LXXI.— STORMING OF MONTEREY. CHARLES FKNNO UOFFMAS. WE were not many — we who stood Before the iron...with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...my vitals now, will no more move me, Than 'twould a corse within a monument ! COUIAX. 13. MONTEREY. WE were not many — we who stood Before the iron...with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot, it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...aught in honor's or in peril's path Unduly shunned, reserved for that embrace. MONTEREY. a t. Homus. WE were not many — we who stood Before the iron...with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot, it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...Land of glory — land of Wallace, How I love thee as a bride ! WILLIAM STEWART Koss. THE SCOT LEGION. WE were not many — we who stood Before the iron...with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot is hail'd In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quail'd When wounded comrades round... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...— Glorious Fountain Let my heart be Fresh, changeful, constant, Upward, like thee ! MONTERE F.— HOFFMAN. WE were not many — we who stood Before...with us at Monterey. Now here, now there, the shot it hailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round... | |
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