 | Sydney George Fisher - Pennsylvania - 1896 - 376 pages
...— This is no time to fill the joyous cup ; The mammoth comes, the foe, the Monster Brandt, With all his howling, desolating band ; These eyes have seen...Red is the cup they drink, but not with wine ; Awake and watch to-night, or see no morning shine." The poem made its first appearance among the literary... | |
 | John George Bourinot - Canada - 1896 - 514 pages
...consigned to eternal infamy in the verse: " The mammoth comes—the foe, the monster, Brandt— With all his howling, desolating band ; These eyes have seen...is the cup they drink, but not with wine— Awake and watch to-night, or see no morning shine." Posterity has, however, recognised the fact that Joseph... | |
 | F. Douglas Reville - Brant (Ont. : County) - 1920 - 476 pages
...Oneida speak of Thayendanegea as follows: "The mammoth comes — the foe — the monster Brant, With all his howling, desolating band; These eyes have seen...Red is the cup they drink, but not with wine; Awake, and watch to-night; or see no morning shine. Scorning to wield the hatchet for his tribe "Gainst Brant... | |
 | William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1838 - 640 pages
...no time to fill the joyous cup, " The mammoth comes,—the foe,—the monster Brant,— " With all his howling, desolating band ;— "These eyes have...and silence half your land. " Red is the cup they drink—but not with wine: " Awake, and watch to-night! or see no morning shine! " Scornmg to wield... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Drake - Social Science - 2001 - 469 pages
...This is no time to fill thy joyous cup: The mammoth comes — the foe — the monster Brandt, With all his howling desolating band; — These eyes have seen...Red is the cup they drink; but not with wine: Awake and watch to-night! or see no morning shine. '"Scorning to wield the hatchet for his bribe, Gainst... | |
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With all his howling desolating ba'nd ; — These eyes have seen their blade and burning pine Awake at once, and silence half your land. Red is the cup they drink ; but not with wine : Awake, and watch to-night, or see no morning shine... 
