The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. A Library of American Literature... - Seite 544von Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1866 - 848 Seiten
...parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now sweeps upon the wind, No troubled thought at midnight's haunts, Of loved ones left behind. No vision... | |
| 1887 - 480 Seiten
...in exchanging visits and generous hospitalities North and South in a permanent and peaceful Union. " No vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dream...horn, nor screaming fife, At dawn shall call to arms." A re-established Union saves us from the wars and the military despotism in which other republics have... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 538 Seiten
...transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van. The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 Seiten
...transcribe a few of the poetical inscriptions : ''On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "Whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place for man to die, Is where he... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 Seiten
...not, then, overmuch for the loyal dead: — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread ; And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." Of the countless dead who died fighting for the alien flag, doubtless thousands were inspired by honest... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1866 - 622 Seiten
...nailed aloft a board bearing these lines : " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." A thick undergrowth had sprang up in the woods. I noticed, stooping among the bushes along by the breastworks,... | |
| George Whitfield Pepper - 1867 - 40 Seiten
...above the arguments of the living crowd. " On fame's eternal camping ground. Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead." There is another element of our greatness, which we commemorate to-day- The number and variety of our... | |
| Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1877 - 564 Seiten
...this evening, your eyes seek for in vain. " On fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, 'And glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." I need not here speak of the achievements of the Army of the Tennessee. The world knows its history... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1868 - 774 Seiten
...before every national soldiers' cemetery : — " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead/* At the alley-crossings stand the following : — " The hopes, the fears, the blood, the tears, That... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1868 - 796 Seiten
...nailed aloft a board bearing these lines : " On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." A thick undergrowth had sprung up in the woods. I noticed, stooping among the bushes along by the breastworks,... | |
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