 O'er all that stricken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled the gory tide; Not long, our stout old chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide. 'Twas in that hour...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1941866Full view - About this book
 | Sallie A. Brock - United States - 1869 - 666 pages
...rage O'er all that stricken plain, For never fiercer fight did wage, The vengeful blood of Spain ; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled...chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide. 'Twas at this hour his stern command, Called to a martyr's grave The flower of this his own loved land, The... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1877 - 140 pages
...O^r all that stricken plain, — For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain ; — And still the storm of battle blew — Still swelled...stern command Called to a martyr's grave The flower oi his own loved land, The nation's flag to save. By rivers of their fathers' gore His first-born laurels... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...raged O'er all that stricken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled...chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide. 'T was in that hour his stern command Called, to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved land, The... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1878 - 874 pages
...O'er all that stricken plain — For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain — And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled...command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved land,f The nation's flag to save. By rivers of their father's gore His first-born laurels grow,... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...conflict raged Across the sunring plain. For ne'er such fight before had waged The fiery sons of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled...land The nation's flag to save. By rivers of their father's gore His first-born laurels grew, And well he deemed the sons would pour Their lives for glory... | |
 | Apache Indians - 1883 - 734 pages
...raged O'er all that stricken plain, For never fiercer flght had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew. Still swelled...chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide. 'Twos in that hour his stern command Called to a martyr's grave t T le flower of his own loved laud,1... | |
 | Recitations - 1884 - 780 pages
...O'er nil that stricken plain — For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain — And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled...chieftain* knew, Such odds his strength could bide. Twos in that hour his stern command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved land,f The... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...raged O'er all that stricken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled...chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide. T was in that hour his stern command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved laud, The... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of buttle blew, Still swelled the gory tide; Not long, our stout...odds his strength could bide. 'Twas in that hour his st''rn command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved land, The nation's flag to save.... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - American poetry - 1889 - 538 pages
...raged O'er all that stricken plain, For never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain ; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled the gory tide ; Not loug our stout old chieftain knew, Such odds his strength could bide. 'T was in that hour his stern... | |
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