 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...fight, Proved his truth by his endeavor; Let him sleep in solemn night, Sleep forever and forever. doubt ?) One night, 'mid their revels, ! Fold him in his country's stars, Roll the drum and fire the volley ! What to him are all our wars,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...Roll the drum and fire the volley ! What to him are all our wars, What but death bcmocking folly ? ٽ2 xٽ2 be cannot know: Lay him low ! Leave him to God's watching eye, Trust him to the Hand that made him.... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1901 - 494 pages
...permission of the publishers, The Whitaker and Ray Co., San Francisco. 45 DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER Close his eyes ; his work is done ! What to him is friend or focman, Rise of moon or set of sun, Hand of man or kiss of woman ? Lay him low, lay him low, In the... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - Historical poetry - 1902 - 470 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 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, What... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 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. — Poems of the War. BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT, an English statesman and political writer,... | |
 | Elia Wilkinson Peattie - American poetry - 1903 - 252 pages
...stars, 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; Lay him low! Leave him to God's watching eye; '"" , Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 562 pages
...in his brain, His manly face turned to the sky, And beaten by the rain. DIRGE FOK A SOLDIER/ CLOSE his eyes; his work is done! What to him is friend...of sun, Hand of man or kiss of woman? Lay him low, lav him low, In the clover or the snow! What cares he? he cannot know; Lay him low! As man may, he... | |
 | Iowa. Department of Public Instruction - Schools - 1904 - 98 pages
...at Chantilly September I, 1882, after he had ridden out in advance of his men to reeoimoiter. Close his eyes; his work is done! What to him is friend...Rise of moon, or set of sun, Hand of man, or kiss o£ woman.'1 Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow! What cares he? he can not know: Lay... | |
 | Alfred Cook - Psychology - 1904 - 408 pages
...From an unknown poet take the instance of a man unknown — Lay him down, his work is done, Vain for him is friend or foeman, Rise of moon or set of sun, Hand of man or kiss of woman. From Holland take the instance of humanity — Oh, the rigid rock is frigid, though its bed be summer... | |
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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... 
