 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 362 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 i, 1862.] WAS there ever message sweeter Than that one from Malvern Hill, From... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 pages
...Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars? — What but death bemocking folly? Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow! What cares he? he cannot know; Lav him low ! 318 PLACES AND PERSOXS. Leave him to God's watching eye : Trust him to the hand that... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 552 pages
...Therefore the doctor specially loved gold. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Dan Chaucer). DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER. LOSE his eyes ; his work is done : What to him is friend or foeraan, Rise of moon or set of sun, Hand of man or kiss of woman ? Lay him low, lay him low, In the... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 752 pages
...Roll the drum and fire the volley ! What to him are all our wars ? What but death bemocking folly? Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! Leave him to God's watching eye ; Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly by... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1887 - 232 pages
...added additional luster to his distinguished public record. But his course on earth is finished. Close his eyes, his work is done : What to him is friend...moon or set of sun, Hand of man, or kiss of woman ? Leave him to God's watching eye, Tmst him to the hand that made him ; Mortal love weeps idly by,... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...fight, Proved his truth by his endeavor , Let him sleep in solemn night, sleep tbrever and forever. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he ? he cannot know , Lay him low ! Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley ! What to him are all our wars?... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers (Primary) - 1888 - 316 pages
...Dead, a long elegy of over one hundred stanzas, closely following Tennyson's In Memoriam. i. CLOSE his eyes; his work is done! What to him is friend...low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he? he can not know; Lay him low ! 2. As man may, he fought his fight, Proved his truth by his endeavor ;... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 pages
...drum aud fire the volley 1 What to him are all our wars ? — • What but death-bemocking folly Î Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow I Leave him to God' s watching eye; Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly by... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1889 - 536 pages
...leaf around us lying, But in its use or beauty shows True love to us, and love undying. 130. Close his eyes, his work is done; What to him is friend...snow. What cares he? — he cannot know; Lay him low. 131. What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betrayed the Capitol? A woman! Who lost... | |
 | Cornelia Phillips Spencer - North Carolina - 1888 - 292 pages
...but is now one of the most beautiful and magnificent cities in the world. RECITATION. DIRGE. CLOSE his eyes ; his work is done : What to him is friend...of moon or set of sun, Hand of man or kiss of woman ? Fold him in his country's stars, Roll the drum and fire the volley: What to him are all our wars... | |
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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... 
