 Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. ' Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the bear's fat haunch beside — The...  The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man - Page 189by Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1852 - 416 pages
...amid — And leaves us here bereft, That we may praise the deeds he did, And — bury what is left. Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The...beside, The journey hence is long ! And let the knife new-sharpened be, That, on the battle-day, Shore with quick strokes — he took but three — The foeman's... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1864 - 410 pages
...amid — And leaves us here bereft, That we may praise the deeds he did, And — bury what is left. Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The...beside, The journey hence is long ! And let the knife new-sharpened be, That, on the battle-day, Shore with quick strokes — he took but threoThe foenmn's... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 496 pages
...interesting still, a belief in a future * "Here bring the last gifts, and with these The last lament he said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be...place the bear's fat haunch beside — The journey is so long ! " And let the knife new sharpened be That on the battle-day Shore with quick strokes —... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - Archaeology - 1867 - 508 pages
...the funeral ritea of an Indian tribe, as thus beautifully embodied in a poetic dirge by Schiller : 11 Here bring the last gifts ! and with these The last...said — Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be burled with the dead."— Sir EB LTTTON. In a passage of an ancient author, quoted by Athenrcus, lib.... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1870 - 660 pages
...(translated by Lytton) well express this practice so common among the aborigines of our own day:— " Here bring the last gifts! and with these The last...with the dead. Beneath his head the hatchet hide That lie BO stoutly swung ; And place the bear's fat haunch beside— The journey hence is long! And let... | |
 | William Copeland Borlase - Social Science - 1872 - 312 pages
...beautiful lines, so exquisitely translated by Lord Lytton, and quoted by Sir Charles Lyell : — • " Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The...— The journey hence is long ! And let the knife now sharpened be That on the battle day Shore with quick strokes — he took but three — The foeman's... | |
 | William Copeland Borlase - Cornwall (England : County) - 1872 - 310 pages
...beautiful lines, so exquisitely translated by Lord Lytton, and quoted by Sir Charles Lyell : — " Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The...lament be said ; Let all that pleased, and yet may pl,'<>s<; Be buried with the dead. Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - Geology - 1873 - 530 pages
...buried with his most useful weapons and precious ornaments. " Bring here the last gifts ; and with them The last lament be said. Let all that pleased and yet may please, Be buried with the dead " was no unmeaning funeral song, but involved the sacrifice of the most precious and prized objects,... | |
 | John Wells Foster - History - 1874 - 432 pages
...beginning " Bringet her die letzten Gaben," which have been truthfully rendered by Sir EL Bulwer : f " Here bring the last gifts ! — and with these The...— The journey hence is long ! " And let the knife new-sharpened be, That on the battle-day Shore with quick strokes — he took but three — The foeman.s... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Africa, West - 1876 - 386 pages
...against these customs, which are evidently of sentimental origin — " Now bring the last sad gifts, with these The last lament be said ; Let all that pleased and still may please Be buried with the dead." The bier was borne by slaves, as the head men would not... | |
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