 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 812 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,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...brightly as then. That night when the love yet unspoken, Leaped up to his lips — when lowmurmured vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, lie dashes off tears that are welling, And gathers his gun closer up to its place, As if to keep down... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Readers - 1882 - 420 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,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1882 - 590 pages
...asleepFor their mother — may Heaven defend ha '. The moon seems to shine just as brightly as tha, That night, when the love yet unspoken Leaped up to his lips — when low, murmur* vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eye*. He dashes... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
..."Were pledged, never more to be broken. Then, drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, He dashes the tears that are welling, And gathers his 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; Yet... | |
 | Albert Ellery Berg - Actors - 1884 - 826 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,... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 564 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...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,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 352 pages
...children asleepy 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,... | |
 | American poetry - 1886 - 552 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 ЛУеге pledged to be ever unbroken. Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - Poetry - 1886 - 362 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! 
