| 1846 - 436 páginas
...CASABIANCA. — Mrs. Hemans. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the...blood, A proud, though childlike, form. The flames rolled on, — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His... | |
| Bennett George Johns - 1847 - 216 páginas
...flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the...heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| Book - 1847 - 206 páginas
...flames had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the...blood, A proud though childlike form. • The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 526 páginas
...unto Heaven. C AS ABI ANC A.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his Father's word ; That Father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| Gorham Dummer Abbott - 1848 - 168 páginas
...will present it to them. The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled on ; he would not go, Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 páginas
...had reached the powder.] THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the...blood, A proud, though childlike form. The flames rolled on, — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 520 páginas
...burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wrec*. Shone round him o'er tne dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his Father's word; That Father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 páginas
...beyond, on earth! CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the bum ing deck, Whence all bat him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud— " Say, father, say, If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1849 - 420 páginas
...thou art free!" CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud : — " Say, Father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay... | |
| Charles Northend - 1866 - 172 páginas
...had reached the powder. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the...blood, A proud, though childlike, form. The flames roiled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
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