 | George Morley Vickers - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1896 - 626 pages
...paper may recall the scene to many of the participants. ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TO-NIGHT. tl A LL quiet along the Potomac," they say. /\ " Except now...picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing— a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1896 - 546 pages
...hand 1П- CHARLES DAWSON SHANLT. THE PICKET-GUARD. ALL quiet along the Potomac," they say, -£j- " Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing : a private or two now and then Will not count in the news... | |
 | Jennie Thornley Clarke - American literature Southern States - 1896 - 396 pages
...THE POTOMAC TO-NIGHT. LAMAR FONTAINE. ALL quiet along the Potomac, they say, Except here and there a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing, a private or two now and then Will not count in the news... | |
 | Thomas West Smith - United States - 1897 - 440 pages
...replied "all right." KM) GEO. AV. RICHARDSON, MAJOR. JOS. C. KENYON, MAJOR. CHAPTER IX. THE PICKET GUARD. "All quiet along the Potomac," they say, Except now...picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing — a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the... | |
 | Annick Van den Abbeele - Nuclear medicine - 1897 - 532 pages
...ing; Not an of • 8 Btara up ccr lout, on - ly a • bove, with tbrir - r •• T-"- i • ' ' " AH quiet along the Potomac," they say, " Except now and...stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to ami fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing: a private or two now and then Will not count... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1898 - 614 pages
...dauntless in war; Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar? Sir Walter Scott. THE PICKET GUARD. "All quiet along the Potomac," they say, "Except now...picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman off in the thicket. Not an officer lost—only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - National songs - 1898 - 306 pages
...the welcome of '98 efface the memory of '61. " 214 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC. All quiet along the Potomac, ' ' they say, " Except...picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. "Tis nothing : a private or two now and then Will not count in the news... | |
 | Charles Nelson Kent - New Hampshire - 1898 - 356 pages
...our might, Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom. CHORUS : ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC. MRS. EL BEERS. " All quiet along the Potomac," they say, " Except now...picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket ; 'T is nothing, a private or two now and then Will not count in the... | |
 | R. L. Paget - American poetry - 1898 - 474 pages
...battle, the question's whether You'll show a hat that's white, or a feather. — Bret Harte. " A LL quiet along the Potomac," they say, " Except now and...picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing, — a private or two, now and then, Will not count in... | |
 | Benjamin La Bree - United States - 1898 - 580 pages
...Potomac To-night. BY LAMAR FONTAINE, SECOND VIRGINIA CAVALRY. "All quiet along the Potomac to-night," Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing — a private or two now and then Will not count in the... | |
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Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing — a private or two now and then Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost — only one of the men, Moaning... 
