 Leaping with open hands, Down they tear man and horse, Down in their awful course ; Trampling with bloody heel Over the crashing steel, All their eyes forward bent, Rushed the black regiment. "Freedom...  Poems of the War - Page 104by George Henry Boker - 1864 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Edgar Prather - Orators - 1908 - 384 pages
...principle, themselves seeing not the outcome, with songs upon their lips, marched to the cannon's mouth, "Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled in triumphant blood." The man of faith, who knows that "God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty,"... | |
 | Charles Edgar Prather - Orators - 1908 - 384 pages
...principle, themselves seeing not the outcome, with songs upon their lips, marched to the cannon's mouth, "Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled in triumphant blood." The man of faith, who knows that "God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty,"... | |
 | Recitations - 1913 - 620 pages
...bent, Rushed the black regiment. "Freedom !" their battle cry— "Freedom ! or leave to die !" Ah ! and they meant the word, Not as with us 'tis heard, Not as mere party shout : They gave their spirits out ; Trusting their end to God, And on the gory sod... | |
 | Mrs. Nellie (Urner) Wallington, Nellie Urner Wallington - American poetry - 1911 - 480 pages
...leave to die ! " Ah ! and they meant the word, Not as with us 't is heard, Not a mere party-shout : They gave their spirits out; Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod 173 Rolled in triumphant blood. Glad to strike one free blow, Whether for weal or woe; Glad to breathe... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - History - 1913 - 444 pages
...comrades by the white soldiers. ' ' Freedom ! ' ' their battlecry, — "Freedom! or leave to die!" Ah! and they meant the word, Not as with us 'tis heard,...a mere party shout ; They gave their spirits out, • • • • • Hundreds on hundreds fell; • • • • • Oh, to the living few, Soldiers,... | |
 | Addie W. Hunton, Kathryn Magnolia Johnson - World War, 1914-1918 - 1920 - 340 pages
...forward bent, Rushed the black regiment. 'Freedom!' their battle cry,— 'Freedom!' or leave to die!' Ah! and they meant the word, Not as with us 'tis heard,...God, And on the gory sod Rolled in triumphant blood, VIEWS TAKEN FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE GREAT WAR Hunton in barbed wire entanglement in "No Man's... | |
 | Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - African Americans - 1920 - 408 pages
...cry — "Freedom!" or leave to die! Ah! and they meant the word, Not as with us 'tis heard, Not as a mere party shout: They gave their spirits out; Trusted...end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled in triumphant blow, Whether for weal or woe; Glad to breathe one free breath. Though on the lips of death; Praying... | |
 | Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson - African Americans - 1920 - 332 pages
...forward bent, Rushed the black regiment. "Freedom!" their battle cry — "Freedom!" or leave to die! Ah ! and they meant the word, Not as with us 'tis heard, Not as a mere party shout: They gave their spirits out; Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled... | |
 | Recitations - 1913 - 624 pages
...bent, Rushed the black regiment. "Freedom !" their battle cry— "Freedom ! or leave to die !" Ah ! and they meant the word, Not as with us 'tis heard, Not as mere party shout: They gave their spirits out ; Trusting their end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled... | |
 | Anna Julia Cooper - History - 1988 - 366 pages
...or leave to die! ' Ah! and they meant the word, Not as with us 'tis heard. Not a mere party-shout: They gave their spirits out. Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled in triumphant blood! " And thus they paid their debt. " They gave —their spirits out!" In the heart of what is known as... | |
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