 | Harp - 1836 - 380 pages
...stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The Same that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 pages
...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 dead. Yet beautiful and bright...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 pages
...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 dead. Yet beautiful and bright...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round hirn o'er the dead. i Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on—he would not go, Without his Father's word ; . That Father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1836 - 180 pages
...Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, ' Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule...creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. 3. The flames rolled on; he would not go, Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 pages
...stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit'thc battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As bom to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled... | |
 | Gertrude (fict. name.) - 1837 - 238 pages
...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 dead: Yet beautiful and bright...storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childish form. The flames rolled on—he would not go, Without his father's word; That father, faint... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...been abandoned ; and periahed in the eiplolion of the vessel when the flame had reached the powder. L2 Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule...faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud: — "Say, Father, say, If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...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 dead. Yet beautiful and bright...blood, -. A proud, though child-like form. The flames rpll'd on — he would not go, Without hin father's word ; That father, faint in death below, > His... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...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 dead. Yet beautiful and bright...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
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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 dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike... 
