 THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.  Hero Tales from American History - Page 164by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt - 1895 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1874 - 816 pages
...abounds in beautiful passages, but none have justly been so much admired as the following verse: " The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's...tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round. Tluit bivouac of the dead," The Title of "Doctor."—" The title of Doctor " was invented in the twelfth... | |
 | J. M. Morphis - Texas - 1874 - 620 pages
...deaths, the brave but once." They should cause them to remember the beautiful lines of the poet : " The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's...No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and gallant few. "On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And Glory guards with... | |
 | Joseph Thatcher Woods - Ohio infantry. 96th regiment, 1861-1865 - 1874 - 274 pages
...responded to their country's call and sealed their duty with their lives "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." FAREWELL! Gone our various ways, separated by the duties of peaceful pursuits, we are marching on through... | |
 | Harriet F. Woods - Brookline (Mass.) - 1874 - 444 pages
...fallen in camp and field, on sea, and in southern prisons ; — " On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." BROOKLINE IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 419 The Selectmen, in closing their \var report for the last... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf The name of HALE shall burn ! THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. BY THEODORE O'HAEA. HE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind : No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1877 - 140 pages
...campaign, whose memories he has embalmed in imperishable verse. The following is the poem referred to : — The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's...meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the... | |
 | J. M. Morphis - Texas - 1875 - 634 pages
...deaths, the brave but once." They should cause them to remember the beautiful lines of the poet: " The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's...No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and gallant few. "On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion - United States - 1875 - 230 pages
...recall the words of one of Kentucky's sons, COLONEL THEODORE O'HARA : "On fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread; And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." Wending down o'er the battle-fields of the Atlanta campaign, I arrived here safely, meeting with naught... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...fight, From Winchester, — twenty miles away ! " THOMAS BUCHANAN READ. THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. TIIF. muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind ; No troubled thought at midnight haunts, Of... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...drum's sad roll has beat JL The soldier's last tattoo1 ; No more on life's parade shall meet That hrave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their...are spread ; And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac2 of the dead. 2. No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind ; No troubled thoughts,... | |
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