 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - United States - 1894 - 268 pages
...blight, Nor Time's remorseless doom Shall dim one ray of holy light That gilds their glorious tomb. " Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave. Nor shall your glory be forgot While... | |
 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - Readers - 1894 - 296 pages
...; The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave, Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame... | |
 | Louise Manly - American liteature - 1895 - 540 pages
...native sky Smiles sadly on them, here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot While... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - Kentucky - 1895 - 900 pages
...rr\artyrdom. Tt\eir labors are done; th.eir mission ended. The world will not see their like again" Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Kor shall your glory be forgot While... | |
 | William F. Cloud - Church and state - 1896 - 360 pages
...native sky Smiles sadly on thennhere, And kindred eyes and hearts watch, by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead. Dear as the blood ye gave! No impious footsteps here shall tread Tlie herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While... | |
 | Jennie Thornley Clarke - American literature Southern States - 1896 - 396 pages
...their native sky Shines sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ! Nor shall your glory be forgot While... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 876 pages
...ground, Their silent tents are spread, But glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. 10. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave, No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot, While... | |
 | R. L. Paget - American poetry - 1898 - 474 pages
...their native sky Smiles sadly on them here, And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave, No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave. Nor shall your story be forgot While Fame... | |
 | Roderick George MacBeth - Manitoba - 1898 - 268 pages
...camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ! Nor shall your glory be forgot While... | |
 | Charles McGregor - New Hampshire - 1899 - 670 pages
...FIFTEENTH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. PRINTED BY Ira (I. Evans, CoNCORD, NH THE DEAD AND WHERE THEY SLEEP. " REST on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave. " No rumor of the foe's advance Now sweeps... | |
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Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave, No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. 
