 | 1870
...sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God. CASABIANCA. A Trtte Story, K boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The flames roll'd on. He would not... | |
 | 1870
...if earth be all, and heaven nothing, What thrice mocked fools are we ! jv p. CLXX. C'ABABIANCA. HPHE boy stood on the burning deck -*- Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. The flames rolled on. He would not... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872
...— Though we may thank him for the plough, We'll not forget the sword!" CASABIANCA.0^ HCEM-A-HSTS. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled : The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1872
...years ! — • 0 Happiness ! how far we flee Thine own sweet paths in search of thec ! CASABIANCA.1 THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round bim o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1873 - 652 pages
...meed of toiling years ! — 0 Happiness ! how far we flee Thine own sweet paths in search of thcc ! CASABIANCA.» THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | 1873
...; but which, when embraced with too much ardour, will perish in the grasp. LORD KAMES. CASABLANCA. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | 1873
...47 4 1 47 4 22 91 16 54 29 7 2 29 6 23 27 19 58 M. Divide :— Tu. Write and learn : — CASABLANCA. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867
...belonged to him. Was he worthy of imitation ? What does that mean ? XLIL— CASABIANCA. FELICIA HEMANS. 1. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | William Bedell Stanford - 1873
...father had placed him." There is a good account of this in " Fathers and Sons "in " Golden Deeds." The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
 | English poetry - 1873
...been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel when the flame had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood,... | |
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THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.... 
