 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we -know, or dream, or fear, Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero — when his sword Has won the battle...Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard, The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought ;... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yct to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought —... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Poetry - 1855 - 490 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones ai-e heard Come in her crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' unearthly light To him... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in ita hollow tones are heard "i^ The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...we know, | or dream', | or fear1 | Of agony, | are thine,. | *BuZ to the hero, | 'when his sword I Has won the battle for the free, | *Thy voice sounds like a proph'et's word; | "And in its hollow tones, are heard | 4The thanks of millions yet to be,. | 3Come when Ais task of fame1 is wrought... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...glorious strife ; The Athlete, nurtur'd for the Olympian game, Gains strength, at least for Life. Bulwer. To the Hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Death's voiee sounds like a prophet's word ; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for ib.- free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of... | |
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But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. 
