 | Jacob Abbott, Old Harlo - 1835 - 272 pages
...cried ! "If I may yet be gone !" And—but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; And look'd from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave, despair; 7. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone ! And"—but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My Father! must I stay ?" While o'er him fast, through sail and... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone!'1 — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shoutod but once more aloud "My father! must 1 stay?" While o'er him fast through sail and shroud,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 188 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone! And " — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...And looked from that lone post of death In still, but brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My Father! must I stay ?" While o'er him fast,... | |
 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone ! And " — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...And looked from that lone post of death In still, but brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must I stay ?" While o'er him fast,... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...Speak, father!' once again he cried, ' If I may yet be gone !' — And but the booming shots replied, Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd from that lone post of death, In still yet brave despair — And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
..." If I may yet be gone ! And" — but the booming shots replied — And fast the flames rolled on. And looked from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My father ! must I stay ?" While o'er him fast, through sail and... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone !" And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames roll'd on. "Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair ; And look'd from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Gertrude (fict. name.) - 1837 - 238 pages
...cried, ' If I may yet be gone ?' And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; And look'd from that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...cried, " If I may yet be gone ! " And" — but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving...that lone post of death, In still, yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, " My Father ! must I stay )" While o'er him fast, through sail and... | |
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And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They... 
