 And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles pass'd...  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 871835Full view - About this book
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and...And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. XLvm. Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions ; in proud state... | |
 | James Tod - Rajasthan (India) - 1920 - 1460 pages
...'•£ 8 p I a There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud,...And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow ; 1 unless the Cossack should follow the track of Roshan All or Mahmud, and try to tear the British... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 464 pages
...All tenanflen, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and...who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which wav'd are shredless dust ere now. And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow." AN AUSTRALIAN... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud: Banners on high, and battles passed below ; 420 But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those...And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. XLVIII Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions; in proud state... | |
 | R. Hippisley Cox - Earthworks (Archaeology) - 1923 - 266 pages
...VI OLD SARUM " There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those who waved are shredless dust ere now." NEAR Salisbury four tributaries join the river Avon — the... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1924 - 486 pages
...with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high, and battles pnss'd below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud,...bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. Beneath those battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions; in proud state Each robber... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 pages
...All tenantless, save to the crannying wind, Or holding dark communion with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high,...battles pass'd below ; But they who fought are in a bloodjshroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 1090 pages
...cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud : Banners on high, and battles passed below ; 420 But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those...shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bearno future blow. XLVIII Beneath these battlements, within those walls, Power dwelt amidst her passions;... | |
 | David Fraser Fraser-Harris - English literature - 1928 - 288 pages
...with the cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud, Banners on high, and battles passed below — But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those that waved are shredless dust ere now ; And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. Will the... | |
 | Genealogy - 1900 - 646 pages
...crannying wind, . . . holding dark communion with the cloud, Banners on high and battles passed below : And they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredlcss dust ere now, And the bloody battlements bear no future blow. Mr. William Allan, MP, in the... | |
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