 Five score men are stretched around — So weary worn are they, They could not sleep a sounder sleep, If on eider-down they lay, With sheltering draperies of silk, And sheets and blankets white as milk. One of the sleepers is a youth, Of twenty years,...  The Salamandrine; Or, Love and Immortality - Seite 12von Charles McKay - 1842 - 145 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1842 - 468 Seiten
...on high, And weaves pale wreaths of curling smoke, Fantastic to the sky. Fivescore men are stretch'd around— So weary worn are they, They could not sleep...his bearing proud,— And the name his fathers bore Was never stain'd by sire or son, Or any that came before ; He is the captain of the band. And he sleeps,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 632 Seiten
...of oak, And weaves fantastic to the sky Blue wreaths of curling smoke. Five-score men are stretch'd around ; So weary worn are they, They could not sleep a sounder sleep If on eider-down they lay, With sheets and blankets white as milk, And sheltering draperies of silk. A streak of radiance in the east... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1876 - 654 Seiten
...of oak, And weaves fantastic to the sky, Blue wreaths of curling smoke. Fivescore men are stretch d around; So weary worn are they, They could not sleep a sounder sleep If on eider-down they lay, With sheets and blankets white as milk, And sheltering draperies of silk. Sir Gilbert, captain of the band,... | |
 | 1854 - 670 Seiten
...the rest, Is piled with chumps of oak, And weaves fantastic to the sky Blue wreathe of curling smoke. Kt& Q ͏ M ] , u LK P 1 Dc ."2Q 9 2$u 4DMYսV ) +lj G7 0 " 2 &{ Y h ʐ *t> Q u Y8 sheets and blankets white as milk, And sheltering draperies of silk. VIII. Sir Gilbert, captain of... | |
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