 | Phrenology - 1888 - 458 pages
...impious footsteps 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 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
...impious footsteps 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 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
...impious footsteps 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 valor proudly sleeps." There was one I cannot fail to mention. A noble Massachusetts soldier was mortally wounded, yet unconscious... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...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 Valor proudly sleeps. When many a vanished year hath flown, The story how ye fell ; Nor wreek, nor change, nor winter's blight,... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1877 - 140 pages
...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 Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceful stone, In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age has flown,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...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 valor proudly sleeps. 4. Yon faithful herald's blazoned stone With mournful pride shall tell, When many a vanished age hath... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...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 Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year hath... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 312 pages
...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 Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone, In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished age hath... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...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 Valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year hath... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...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 valor proudly sleeps. 10. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone In deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year 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 Valor... 
