 Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the brave, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And...  The child's book of song and praise - Page 18by Child - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Ricketson - Antislavery movements - 1858 - 426 pages
...England, but of the whole civilized world : ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, SEPTEMBER, 1782. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk...heel, And laid her on her side. A land breeze shook her shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for... | |
 | Book - Children's poetry, English - 1858 - 124 pages
...religious eye, Cheer me with his vital ray, Promise of eternal day. LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. TOLL for the brave, — The brave that are no more ! All...Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side 5 A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | Children - 1859 - 198 pages
...Remembering, like the fearless child, Our Father's at the helm ! THE LOSS OP THE EOYAL GKEOEGE. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 636 pages
...peri in the other, he gave vent to his feelings in the.v,deeply solemn and exquisite lines : " Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk...Fast by their native shore ! " Eight hundred of the Ьгате, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. 62 63... | |
 | John Tillotson - England - 1860 - 226 pages
...melancholy occurrence has been recorded by the poet Cowper, in the following beautiful lines : — " Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk...made the vessel heel, And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset : Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | 1860 - 784 pages
...letters, for the sake of irinexing it to the original. SONG, ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL OEOROE. Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk...Had made the vessel heel. And laid her on her side. \ land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1860 - 414 pages
...noble Dirge, on the remarkable casualty of the sinking of the Royal George at her moorings : "Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave, East by their native shore ! Eight hundred of the braye, Whose courage well was tried, Had made the... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...the cleaving of a craig, She found him drown'd in Yarrow ! Anon. cxxix LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE Toll for the Brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk...Had made the vessel heel And laid her on her side. A land-breeze shook the shrouds And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1862 - 304 pages
...deaf to beauty's soft persuasive power, Nor can bright Hebe's charms her bloom secure.' 4. • Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more, All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore.' 5. ' And authors think their reputation safe Which lives as long as fools are pleased to laugh.' 6.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...come to dust." Cowper's lines on the loss of the Royal George sound like the passing bell : — " Toll for the brave ! The brave that are no more ! All sunk beneath the wave Fast by their native shore ! " The Castaway, by the same author, combines what is most touching in both kinds of elegy. After... | |
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