 | Isaac William Stuart - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 292 pages
...departed patriot. "To drum-beat," he proceeds, in a few verses which we extract from a series — " To drum-beat and heart-beat, A soldier marches by...drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By star-light and moon-light, He seeks the Briton's camp ; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1843 - 260 pages
...Bible, and the letters he had written to his mother and sisters were destroyed.] 1. " To dram-beat and heart-beat, A soldier marches by ; There is color...in his cheek, There is courage in his eye, Yet to dram-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. 2. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...worth a hundred thousand men. LV.—THE PATRIOT SPY. FRANCIS M. FINCH. 1. To drum beat and heart beat A soldier marches by ; There is color in his cheek, There is courage in his eye ; Yet to drum beat and heart beat, In a moment he must die. 2. By star-light and moon-light He seeks the Briton's... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...cast a. veil over his error. LV.— THE PATRIOT SPY. FRANCIS M. FINCH. 1. To drum beat and heart beat A soldier marches by ; There is color in his cheek, There is courage in his eye ; Yet to drum beat and heart beat, In a moment he must die. 2. By star-light and moon light He seeks the Briton's... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1870 - 496 pages
...Society, Yule College. Nathan Hale was one of the early members. 1- rPO drum-beat, and heart-beat, JL A soldier marches by : There is color in his cheek,...drum-beat, and heart-beat, In a moment he must die. 2. By starlight and moonlight He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...Liberty, Or death-ruue of our doom ! NATHAN HALE. BY FKANCIS M. FINCH. 0 drum-beat and heart-heat, A soldier marches by : There is color in his cheek,...drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp ; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...death-rune of our doom ! NATHAN HALE. BY FRANCIS M. FINCH. 0 drum-beat and heart-beat, A soldier marehes by : There is color in his cheek, There is courage...drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp ; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...Society, Yale College. Nathan Hale was one of the early members. 1. rjlO drum-beat, and heart-beat, JL A soldier marches by : There is color in his cheek,...drum-beat, and heart-beat, In a moment he must die. 2. By starlight and moonlight He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...as though To give that name the reverence due, And gently said, " My mother 1 " 4 THE PATRIOT SPY. To drum-beat and heart-beat A soldier marches by ;...drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight He seeks the Briton's camp; He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's... | |
 | Literature - 1879 - 984 pages
...be glad to recall their college days in these stanzas from his ballad of Nathan Hale: " To dram-beat and heart-beat A soldier marches by ; There is color...eye, Yet to drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he matt die. " By starlight and moonlight He seeks the Briton's camp ; He hears the rustling flag And... | |
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To drum-beat and heart-beat, A soldier marches by: There is color in his cheek, There is courage in his eye — Yet to drum-beat and heart-beat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp. He hears the rustling flag,... 
