 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 páginas
...the immortal names, That were not horn to die. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. .WC BRYANT. Our band is few, bnt true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The British...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | Augusta Blanche Berard - 1859 - 230 páginas
...the north ? — Repeat the story of Putnam's escape. CHAPTER XV. THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (Concluded.) "Our band is few, but true and tried. Our leader frank...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told." BRYAN* 1780. ON the twelfth of May, 1780, the city of Charleston fell before the combined fleet and... | |
 | William P. Tomlinson - 1859 - 328 páginas
...not otherwise dealt with for his conduct. CHAPTER XII. CAPT. JAMES MONTTGOMER Y. " Our band is iVw, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; The...British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs, Their hearts are all with Marion,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 788 páginas
...Marion's brigade to their beloved leader. Bryant has sketched a graphic picture of that noble band, in his SONG OF MARION'S MEN. Our band is few, but true and...When MARION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 páginas
...domination, and deepseated and formidable power ! Ex. XLIV.—SO1fG OF MARION'S MEN. W. 0. RRYANT. The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood. Our tent the cypress tree ; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1860 - 794 páginas
...leader. Bryant has sketched a graphic picture of that noble band, in his SONG OF MARION'S MEN. Oar band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold ; Tire British soldier trembles When MARION'S name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1861 - 272 páginas
...fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the wilderness alone. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUE band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold; The British soldier trembles Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1865 - 300 páginas
...continue to make use of your eyes, and you, Robert, learn that eyes were given you to use. AIKKN. 129. SONG OF MARION'S MEN. OUR band is few, but true and...MARION'S' name is told ; Our fortress is the good green wood, our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, as seamen know the sea. We know... | |
 | John Wilson - 1865 - 444 páginas
...remonstrate with him for not coming into the open field, and fighting " like a gentleman and a Christian." SONG OF MARION'S MEN. " Our band is few, but true and tried — Our leader frank and bold — The foeman trembles in his camp When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 páginas
...to thy murmur, he shall deem He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. •оно or muox's HIM. Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank...When Marion's name is told. Our fortress is the good green wood, Our tent the cypress-tree ; We know the forest round us, AB seamen know the sea. We know... | |
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Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass. 
