 The Soldier's Dream. OUR bugles sang truce ; for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.  The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ... - Page 40by Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White - 1829 - 497 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...thee, thou busy, busy bee ! SODTHEY. SoMer•s UB bugles sang truce ; for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground, overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing, that night, on my pallet of... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...breast? ROBERT BURNS. 456 THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce ; for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered : The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1901 - 286 pages
...Wordsworth. CVII. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. cccxiv. Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowePd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 554 pages
...animal life. XLVI.— THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. 1. Our bugles sang truce ; for the night cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered — The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. 2. When reposing that night on my pallet... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1902 - 192 pages
...No bounds to human woe. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. OUR bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 pages
...! W. Wordsworth cccxiv THE SOLDIER'S DREAM Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw... | |
 | Harr Wagner - American literature - 1902 - 576 pages
...Fourth of July! Do you remember when — " Our bugles sang truce, for the nightrcloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky, And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die"? Among the soldiers who slept on those stricken... | |
 | Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - Ballads, English - 1902 - 376 pages
...he was left lamenting. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM OUR bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
 | Harold Edgeworth Butler - English poetry - 1903 - 248 pages
...blow. Thomas Campbell. THE SOLDIER'S DREAM Our bugles sang truce—for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. When reposing that night on my pallet of straw,... | |
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