 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1849 - 558 pages
...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 in death a rich perfume,... | |
 | 1851 - 558 pages
...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...victor victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. BOTH WORLDS HAVE THEIR PROPER... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...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,...victor victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. SOLILOQUY ON PEATH. I HAVE... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...murmuring breath, When they pale captives creep to deatk The garlands witlter on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon death's purple altar...victor victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the action» of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust" That grand old lyric to a... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...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 sweet,... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 pages
...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 ! Your heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet... | |
 | David Thomas - 684 pages
...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,...— victim bleeds : All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." In sublime contrast with this... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1852 - 636 pages
...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...victor victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb : Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. BOTH WORLDS HAVE THEIR PROPER... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1852 - 464 pages
...When they, pale captives, creep to death. " The garlands wither on his brow : Then boast no more his mighty deeds, Upon death's purple altar now, See where...victor victim bleeds. All heads must come To the cold tomb, Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." 'If he could speak to us from... | |
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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.... 
