 THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce ; for the nightcloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.  The Complete Works of C.S. Calverley - Page 460by Charles Stuart Calverley, Walter Joseph Sendall - 1901 - 514 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - Hope - 1804 - 182 pages
...And the centinel stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die ! When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scarring fagot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice,... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...thousands had sunk on the ground, overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. « TV hen, reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot, that guarded the slain, * t the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice, ere the cock crew, I dreamt it again. Methought,... | |
 | Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...sky, Ar.d thousands had sunk on the ground ovtrpower'd, The wear/ to deep, and the wounded to uie ! .When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring fr.gjot that guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, Ar.d twice, ere the... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...And the centinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpow'r'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing...straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slai n, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pages
...thousands had sunk on the ground, overpower'd; Orm bugles sung truce, for the night cloud had lower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing...By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, In the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice ere the cock crew, I dreamt it again. Far,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...And the centinel stars set their watch in the sky i And thousands had sunk on the ground overpow'r'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing...straw, By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slaini At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again.... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing...that night on my pallet of straw, By the wolf-scaring faggotthat guarded the slain, At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw; And twice ere the cock-crow... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pages
...CHAPTER XXVI. " Our bugle sang truce, for the nigbt-eloud had lower'd, And the sentinel-stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered— The weary to deep, and the wounded to die : When reposing that night on my pallet of straw, Fiy the wolf.scaring... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1825 - 388 pages
...And the centinel stars set the watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die ; When...By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, In the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice ere the cock crew I dreamt it again. Methought... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 pages
...And the centinel stars set the watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die; When reposing...By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain, In the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, And twice ere the cock crew I dreamt it again. Till... | |
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