 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 ページ
...breath, When they, pale captives, creep to Death. The garlands wither on your brow ! — Then boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds ! All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 ページ
...murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds : All hands must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 ページ
...breath, When they, pale captives, creep to Death. The garlands wither on your brow ! — Then boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds ! All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1852 - 636 ページ
...murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
 | David Thomas - 684 ページ
...most obscure of the present generation will be dust. " The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar, now, See where the victor, — victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 ページ
...with the small, Sceptre and crown with scythe and spade. 3 The laurel withers on our brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ! 4 All heads must come to the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Preserve... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 ページ
...murm'ring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon Death's purple altar now See where the victor victim bleeds ; All hands must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just, Smell... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 ページ
...murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boaet no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar, now, See where the victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 ページ
...murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow ; Then boast no more your mighty deeds : Upon Death's purple altar, now, See where the v,ctor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
 | Frederick Edward Gretton - 1853 - 152 ページ
...murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; Upon death's purple altar now, See where the victor victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb ; Only the actions of the just Smell... | |
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... reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death.... 
