War SongsClarendon Press, 1908 - 187 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
15th Hussars agen Bagford Ballads battle Battle of Almanza beat blaw blood bold dragoon bonnet bonny lasse brave bonny lasse Brave boys bright sabertasche British Grenadiers Cannon Captain Barnard's Grenadier Chorus comes marching home courage dear Dowglas Dragoon drum Dub-a-dub Duke DUMBARTON'S drums Durfey e'er Eighteen-hundred Fifty-four English fame fear fight Flanders fought French gallant gay when Johnny glory guns hand hath haughs of Cromdale heart Here's heroes Highland Highland laddie honour horse hundred pipers hurrah Johnnie Cope Johnny comes marching King Charles lads Lady long swords Mary Ambree morning ne'er never night noble o'er the Hills Percy Percy Folio Persë Pibroch plains of Waterloo row de dow row row row Roxburghe Ballads saddle sayd Scots shee sing slayne soldier song sound ther thousand town true trumpet Twas Twentieth of September valiant victory Whack Wyatt-Edgell ye not Agincourt
Popular passages
Page 164 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade ! " Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
Page 143 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 117 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand or freeman fa', Let him follow me!
Page 124 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry...
Page 164 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Page 112 - Other Romans shall arise Heedless of a soldier's name; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame. Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Armed with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command. Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.
Page 133 - The bride at the altar ; Leave the deer, leave the steer, Leave nets and barges : Come with your fighting gear, Broadswords and targes. Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master.
Page 123 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 113 - Such the Bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre. She, with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow : Rush'd to battle, fought and died ; Dying, hurl'd them at the foe.
Page 49 - Which he neglects the while, As from a nation vile, Yet, with an angry smile, Their fall portending. And turning to his men, Quoth our brave Henry then, " Though they to one be ten Be not amazed ; Yet have we well begun, Battles so bravely won Have ever to the sun By fame been raised.