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" Woe to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light at midnight A strange and sudden fear : When, waking to their tents on fire, They grasp their arms in vain, And they who stand to face us Are beat to earth again... "
Gems of Poetry - Page 18
1850 - 252 pages
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Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in ...

Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vinea) Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. 3. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near ! On them shall light, at midnight, A stranre...
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Horse Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency, Volume 2

John Pendleton Kennedy - Albemarle County (Va.) - 1835
...the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree, -We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea.. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its sale and silent islands Withjn the dark morass. — Bryant. THE faithful Horse Shoe being thus left...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 20

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 536 pages
...the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy...Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass." • » • • • " Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads— The glitter...
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The Young Man's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...the good green-wood. Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its sale and silent islands Within the dark morass. Woe to the English soldiery, That little dread us near...
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Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk, Volume 1

Charles Fenno Hoffman - American fiction - 1840 - 252 pages
...the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree, We know the forest round ui As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the deep morass." — BRYANT. " I RAYTHER guess," quoth Balt, when the party had all, by different routes,...
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Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk, Volume 1

Charles Fenno Hoffman - American fiction - 1840 - 248 pages
...the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress-tree, We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea ; We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, _ Its safe and silent islands Within the deep morass." — BBTANT. " I RAYTHER guess," quoth Balt,...
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Songs, Odes, & Other Poems, on National Subjects: Comp. from ..., Volume 3

William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near! On them shall light at midnight A strange and...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Ita safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us...
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A History of the Life and Services of Captain Samuel Dewees: A Native of ...

John Smith Hanna - United States - 1844 - 378 pages
...the good green wood, Our tent the Cypress tree : We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its sage and silent island*: Within the dark morass. Wo to the English soldiery That little dread us near...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...Our tent the cypress-tree; « We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea. We know its wulls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. " Well knows the fair and friendly moon, The band that Marion leads — The glitter of their rifles,...
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