 | American periodicals - 1866 - 848 pages
...hearts watch by The soldiers' sepulchre. Best on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave 1 No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage...your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or honour points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps. Yon faithful herald's blazoned stone, With... | |
 | Phrenology - 1888 - 458 pages
...washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms by battle gashed Are free from anguish now. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear is the blood...points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. — O'Hara. Why, alas, why is it, that when millions are willing to lay down their lives to satisfy... | |
 | Sallie A. Brock - Confederate States of America - 1869 - 660 pages
...and hearts watch by The hero's sepulchre. Rest on embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage...points the hallowed spot, Where Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceful stone, In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year hath... | |
 | Mrs. Julia Susan Wheelock Freeman - Hospitals - 1870 - 296 pages
...I might serve my country longer." " Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the bloody grave ; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage...points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps." There was one I cannot fail to mention. A noble Massachusetts soldier was mortally wounded, yet unconscious... | |
 | Charles Lanman - History - 1871 - 576 pages
...the Confederate authorities at Richmond. " Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage...forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the ballow'd spot Where valor proudly sleeps." REBEL RAID FROM CANADA. The State of Michigan, being on... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1877 - 140 pages
...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...points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceful stone, In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age has flown,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...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...points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. When many a vanished year hath flown, The story how ye fell ; Nor wreek, nor change, nor winter's blight,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pages
...heroes' sepulehre. 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...keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor prondly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...heroes' sepulcher. Best on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave ! No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall...points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year hath... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...call to arms. 3. 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...points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps. 4. Yon faithful herald's blazoned stone With mournful pride shall tell, When many a vanished age hath... | |
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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 Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where... 
