 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Readers - 1866 - 402 pages
...children asleep — For their mother, — may Heaven defend her ! The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then, That night, when the love yet unspoken Leaped up to hia lips — when low-murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...children asleep, For their mother — may Heaven defend her ! The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then. That night when the love yet unspoken Leaped...his eyes, He dashes off tears that are welling, And gather« his gun closer up to its place, As if to keep down the heart-swelling. He passes the fountain,... | |
 | Frank Moore - American literature - 1889 - 602 pages
...children asleep — For their mother — may Heaven defend her! The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then. That night, when the love yet unspoken Leaped...dashes off tears that are welling, And gathers his gun clo.-er up to its place, As if to keep down the heart-swelling. He passes the fountain, the blasted... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - American poetry - 1889 - 316 pages
...brightly as then, That night, when the love yet unspoken — Leaped up to his lips — when low-murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing...gun closer up to its place As if to keep down the heart-swelling. He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree — The footstep is lagging and weary... | |
 | Frank Moore - American literature - 1889 - 598 pages
...his lips — when low, murmured TOWS • Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing liU fleeve roughly over his eyes, He dashes off tears that are...gun closer up to its place, As if to keep down the heart-swelling. He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree—- The 'footstep is lagging and weary... | |
 | Frank Moore - American literature - 1889 - 614 pages
...children asleep — For their mouler — may Heaven defend her ! The moon scems to shine just a* brightly as then, That night, when the love yet unspoken Leaped up to his lips — when low, murmured TOWS Were pledged to bэ ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve rougbly over his eyes, He dashes off... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - American poetry - 1889 - 538 pages
...children asleep — For their mother — may Heaven defend her ! The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then, That night, when the love yet unspoken — Leaped up to his lips — when low-murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 706 pages
...children asleep, For their mother; may Heaven defend her! The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then, That night, when the love yet unspoken Leaped up to his lips—when low-murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly over... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...children asleep— For their mother — may Heaven defend her I The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then. That night, when the love yet unspoken Leaped up to his lips — when low-murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then, drawing his sleeve roughly over his eye*.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...children asleep— For their mother — may Heaven defend her ! The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then, That night, when the love yet unspoken Leaped up to his lips — when low-murmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes,... | |
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Far away in the cot on the mountain. His musket falls slack; his face, dark and grim, Grows gentle with memories tender, As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep, For their mother — may Heaven defend her! 
