 | Frank Moore - United States - 1882 - 590 pages
...Hans! go ahead !" DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER. IN MEM01VY OF GEN. PHILIP KBARNT. BY OEOBGE H. BOKER. CLOSE his eyes ; his work is done ! What to him is friend...him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he i ho cannot know : Lay him low ! As man may, he fought his fight, Proved his truth by his endeavor... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...Golbicr. IN MEMORY OF GENERAL PHIUP KEARJfY, KILLED SEPTEMBER 1, 1862. CLOSE his eyes ; his work is done I What to him is friend or foeman, Rise of moon, or set of sun, Hand of man, or kiss of woman t Ijay him low, lay him low. In the clover or the snow ! What cares he f- he cannot know : Lay him... | |
 | Brander Matthews - Poetry - 1882 - 318 pages
...fight, Proved his truth by his endeavor; Let him sleep in solemn night, Sleep forever and forever. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow! What cares he? he can not know: Lay him low! Fold him in his country's stars, Roll the drum and fire the volley! What... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1882 - 594 pages
...Hans ! go ahead ! " DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER. IN MEMORY OP GEN. PHILIP XEARNY. BY GEORGE H. BOKER. CLOSE his eyes ; his work is done ! What to him is friend or foeman, Rise of mosn, or set of sun, Hand of man, or kiss of woman ? Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1882 - 590 pages
...eye, Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly by : God alone has power to aid him. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow 1 What cares he ? he cannot know : Lay him low 1 THE BEDFORD BOY "ALEX." — At the battle of Winchester... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...also The Ivory- Carver, The Black Regiment, The Ballad of Sir John Franklin and other poems. Close his eyes ; his work is done ! What to him is friend...snow ! What cares he? He cannot know. Lay him low ! Dirge for o Soldier. Poems and Parodies, Poems of Faith, Hope and Love, Hymni for All Christians,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...skies are bright, And the world is a braver world to-day. GEORGE H. BOKEE. [USA] DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER. What to him is friend or foeman, Rise of moon, or set of sun, CLOSE his eyes; his work is done! Hand of man, or kiss of woman ? Lay him low, lay him low, In the... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Abolitionists - 1884 - 452 pages
...causes as those for which Mr. Phillips had been speaking, he sang tender words, beginning, — " ' Close his eyes: his work is done. What to him is friend or foeman I ' The closing stanza was, — " ' Lay him low, lay him low, Under the clover, or under the snow:... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Readers - 1866 - 402 pages
...from the earth. DIEGE FOB A SOLDIBE. 301 Ex. CXCIX.— DIRGE FOB A SOLDIER. GEORGE II. BOKEB. CLOSE his eyes, his work is done ! What to him is friend...In the clover or the snow ! ?» What cares he ? he can not know. \ Lay him low ! n v^As man may, he fought his fight, IS. Proved his truth by his endeavor;... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 352 pages
...eye, Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly by : God alone has power to aid him. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he ? he cannot know : Lay him low ! MALVERN HILL. [July 1, 1862.] « WAS there ever message sweeter Than that one from Malvern Hill,... | |
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Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he? he cannot know: Lay him low... 
