| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1904 - 632 páginas
...faith the cloudy hem Of Judgment fringed with Mercy's light ! 1862. THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862. THE flags of war like storm-birds fly, The charging trumpets...strives below. And, calm and patient, Nature keeps 5 Her ancient promise well, Though o'er her bloom and greenness sweeps The battle's breath of hell.... | |
| United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 862 páginas
...CHAPTER VI. WINTER QUARTERS — RICHARD'S RECONNOISSANCE — MUD MARCH. THE flags of war like storm birds fly, The charging trumpets blow; Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below. N the cold, heavy winter rain the regiment returned to its old camping-ground. Roaring fires blazed... | |
| United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) - 1905 - 1066 páginas
...CHAPTER VI. WINTER QUARTERS — RICHARD'S RECONNOISSANCE — MUD MARCH. THE flags of war like storm birds fly, The charging trumpets blow; Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below. N the cold, heavy winter rain the regiment returned to its old camping-ground. Roaring fires blazed... | |
| Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1908 - 746 páginas
...collect his forces and to prepare for a manœuvre of the first importance. THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 186i THF. flags of war like storm-birds fly. The charging trumpets...her fruits and flowers Like jewels on her arms. What mean the gladness of the plain. This joy of eve and morn. The mirth that shakes the beard of grain... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1910 - 520 páginas
...see by faith the cloudy hem Of Judgment fringed with Mercy's light ! THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862 THE flags of war like storm-birds fly, The charging trumpets...her fruits and flowers Like jewels on her arms. What mean the gladness of the plain, This joy of eve and morn, The mirth that shakes the beard of grain... | |
| Charles Beneulyn Johnson - 1917 - 308 páginas
...service by reason of ailments due to ill-prepared food. CHAPTER V. FROM CAMP TO THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY. "The flags of war like storm-birds fly, The charging trumpets...blow; Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strikes below." — WHITTIER. As most of us were from the farms where we had been used to absolute... | |
| 1919 - 966 páginas
...lips and harps of seraphim. 8 s Atlantic Monthlv, April. (1862) 1862. THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862 The nsergents would rend the Union, even by war; while...the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party ex S Her ancient promise well, Though o'er her bloom and greenness sweeps The battle's breath of hell.... | |
| Henry Edmund Patton - 1922 - 470 páginas
...enrolled the noblest sons of Ulster in defence of the Empire. CHAPTER XIV. THE GREAT WAS AND AFTER. " And calm and patient Nature keeps Her ancient promise...and greenness sweeps The battle's breath of hell. " Still in the cannon's pause we hear Her sweet thanksgiving psalm : Too near to God for doubt or fear,... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 páginas
...Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below. And, calm and patient, Nature keeps I Her ancient promise well, Though o'er her bloom and...harvest-happy farms, "> And still she wears her fruits and flower-' Like jewels on her arms. What mean the gladness of the plain, This joy of eve and morn, The... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 páginas
...Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below. And, calm and patient, Nature keeps 5 Her ancient promise well, Though o'er her bloom and...harvest-happy farms, "> And still she wears her fruits and flower* Like jewels on her arms. What mean the gladness of the plain, This joy of eve and morn, The... | |
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