 Six thousand English veterans in stately column tread ; Their cannon blaze in front and flank ; Lord Hay is at their head ; Steady they step adown the slope, steady they climb the hill, Steady they load, steady they fire, moving right onward still...  Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee - Page 400by James D. McCabe - 1866 - 717 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Osborne Davis - 1870 - 264 pages
...veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front and flank, Lord Hay is at their head ; Steady they step a-down the slope — steady they...climb the hill; Steady they load — steady they fire, moving right onward still, Betwixt the wood and Fontenoy, as through a furnace blast,' Through rampart,... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 508 pages
...veterans, in stately column tread, Their cannons blaze in front and flank, Lord Hay is at their head ; Steady they step a-down the slope — steady they...climb the hill ; Steady they load — steady they fire — moving right onward still, Betwixt the wood and Fontenoy, as ibrough a furnace blast. Through rampart,... | |
 | Thomas Davis - 1854 - 268 pages
...veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front and flank, Lord Hay is at their head ; Steady they step a-down the slope — steady they...the hill ; Steady they load — steady they fire, moving right onward still, Betwixt the wood and Fontenoy, as through a furnace blast, Through rampart,... | |
 | Thomas Davis - English poetry - 1857 - 274 pages
...veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front and flank, Lord Hay is at their head ; Steady they step a-down the slope — steady they...climb the hill; Steady they load — steady they fire, moving right onward still, Betwixt the wood and Fontsnoy, as through a furnace blast, Through rampart,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...forcibly to mind the attack of those ' six thousand English veterans " immortalized by Thomas Davis : " ' Steady they step adown the slope, Steady they climb...steady they fire — Marching right onward still.' His voice is a rich and musical baritone, swelling into occasional clarion-blasts toward the close... | |
 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - Cuba - 1860 - 406 pages
...rapidly climbing the ascent to take a glorious part in the strife then raging within the castle. " Steady they step adown the slope, Steady they climb...steady they fire — Marching right onward still. " The Palmettos, more to the right, and more exposed to the fire, suffered severely. Led by the intrepid... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 486 pages
...forcibly to mind the attack of those ' six thousand English veterans " immortalized by Thomas Davis : " ' Steady they step adown the slope, Steady they climb...steady they fire— Marching right onward still.' His voice is a rich and musical baritone, swelling into occasional clarion-blasts toward the close... | |
 | John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne - Cuba - 1860 - 418 pages
...rapidly climbing the ascent to take a glorious part in the strife then raging within the castle. " Steady they step adown the slope, Steady they climb...steady they fire — Marching right onward still." The Palmettos, more to the right, and more exposed to the fire, suffered severely. Led by the intrepid... | |
 | Henry Benson Stuart - Infantry - 1861 - 158 pages
...veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front and Hani; , Lord Hay is at their head ; Steady they step a-down the slope — steady they...climb the hill ; Steady they load— steady they fire, moving right onward still, Betwixt the wood and Fontenoy, as through a furnace blast, Through rampart,... | |
 | Spirit - 1861 - 224 pages
...veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze hi front and flank, Lord Hay is at their head; Steady they step a-down the slope — steady they...climb the hill; Steady they load— steady they fire, moving right onward still, Betwixt the wood and Fontenoy, as through a furnace blast, Through rampart,... | |
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