 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 pages
...fatal blow — Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers : Strew,...way with flowers! Strew your hero's way with flowers !" Before he left Trenton, the president sent a brief note to the ladies who prepared this memorable... | |
 | George Washington Parke Custis - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 756 pages
...fatal blow— Aims at Thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for Thee triumphal bowers. Strew,...with flowers— Strew your Hero's way with flowers !" Washington arrived in New York on the twenty-third of April, and took the oath of office, administered... | |
 | William Henry Carpenter, Timothy Shay Arthur - New Jersey - 1865 - 306 pages
...the fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair and matrons grave. Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers ; Strew,...with flowers ! Strew your hero's way with flowers !" As they sung the last line of their song, suiting the action to the words, they strewed before him... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1867 - 604 pages
...fatal blow — Aims at thee the fatal blow. Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers ; Strew,...with flowers ! Strew your hero's way with flowers ! and suiting their action to the words, they threw their flowers in the way before him. In the evening... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New Jersey - 1868 - 604 pages
...more, Welcome to this grateful shore; Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow, Aims at THEE the fatal blow. Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those...way with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers ; with the deepest emotion. After receiving the salutations of the citizens, he handed the following... | |
 | Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson - History - 1869 - 358 pages
...mercenary foe, Aims again the fatal blow. Virgins fair, and Matrons grave, These thy conquering arm did save. Build for thee triumphal bowers, Strew,...with flowers, Strew your Hero's way with flowers." At Elizabethtown point he embarked in an elegant barge, rowed by thirteen men, and as he passed the shipping... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 456 pages
...fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Yirgins fair, and mothers grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew,...with flowers ! Strew your hero's way with flowers." 'V/ith joyous greetings at every step, Washington proceeded ihiongh New Jersey, over which he had once... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Grottoes (Va.) - 1871 - 466 pages
...fatal blow, Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair, and mothers grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers I Strew your hero's way with flowers." With joyous greetings at every step, Washington proceeded thionghNew... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 460 pages
...fatal blow, Aims at thoe the fatal blow. " Virgins fair, and mothers grave, Those thy conquering arm did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers I Strew your hero's way with flowers." starved, half-naked army, before a closely pursuing foe ; and... | |
 | John O. Raum - Trenton (N.J.) - 1871 - 488 pages
...— Welcome to this grateful shore ; Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow — Aims at thee the fatal blow. " ' Virgins fair and matrons grave...his way with flowers — Strew your hero's way with flowers.1 And at the end of the last line, the flowers were strewn before him." ... On the north or... | |
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Welcome, mighty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore : Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow ; Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew,... 
