 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun, after rain ; like the moon, in the silence of njght; calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling, now; dark the place of thino abode. With three steps, I... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1854 - 544 pages
...from war, how peaceful was thy brow. Thy face was like the sun p after rain : like the moon in the silence of night: calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. fair among the sons of the vale. But thou shalt fall like Morw : the mourner shall sit on thy tomb.... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1854 - 154 pages
...how peaceful was thy brow when thou didst return from war ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Thy dwelling is narrow now ; the place of thine abode is dark. O thou who wast... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1855 - 360 pages
...The pronoun I, and the interjection O, should invariably be written or printed in capitals ; as, — With three steps I compass thy grave, O thou who wast so great before ! REMARKS. a. The interjection oh should never, as is sometimes done, be put with an initial capital,... | |
 | Julien Tulard - 1855 - 344 pages
...peaceful was thy brow 1 Thy face was like the sun after rain— like the moon in the silence of mght — calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling now — dark the place of thine abode. With three steps... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...from war, how peaceful was thy brow I Thy face was like the sun, after rain; like the moon, in the silence of night; calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling, now; dark the place of thine abode. With three steps, I... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - Georgia - 1858 - 488 pages
...new horror to the last moments of the expiring soldier. But Washington came forth in his strength, calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid. Cool and collected, he drew the residuo of the corps from the scene of carnage, and, by a timely and... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night ; calm as the breast of the lake...O thou who wast so great before. Four stones, with theirheads of moss, are the only memorial of thee. A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...return from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain ; like the moon in the silence of night; calm as the breast of the lake when...who wast so great before! Four stones, with their heads of moss, are the only memorial of thee. A tree with scarce a leaf, iong grass, which whistles... | |
 | Bracebridge Hemyng - 1865 - 344 pages
...from war, how peaceful was thy brow ! Thy face was like the sun after rain — like the moon in the silence of night — calm as the breast of the lake, when the loud wind is hushed into repose. Narrow is thy dwelling now — dark the place of thine abode. With three steps... | |
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Many fell by thy arm : they were consumed in the flames of thy wrath. But when thou didst return from war, how peaceful was thy brow. Thy face was like the sun after rain : like the moon in the silence of night : calm as the breast of the lake when the... 
