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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.... "
The Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal - Page 128
1826
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A Discourse Delivered in Quincy, March 11, 1848, at the Interment of John ...

William Parsons Lunt - 1848 - 68 pages
...the small, Sceptre and crown with scythe and spade. 3 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 ! 4 All heads must come to the cold tomb: Only the actions of the just Preserve in death a rich perfume,...
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The officer's daughter: a memoir of miss Elizabeth Tatton. To which are ...

Octavius Winslow - 1848 - 170 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...
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The British Millennial Harbinger and Family Magazine, Volume 1

1848 - 602 pages
...conquering 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 nf the just Smell street...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds ; I — n's sister might beseem ; Or that & ʭ 0 ~ ң 7 [ "I 1849 G tomb, Only the actions of the just \ Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. ^ upon hit Mittras Sad. Melancholy,...
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The Sacred Poets of England and America: For Three Centuries

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...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 sweet and blossom in the dust....
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Hymns for the Sanctuary

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,...
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The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 1

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...
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Selections from the British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to ...

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...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 14

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...
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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

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,...
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