Nathan Hale, 1776: Biography and MemorialsDe Vinne Press, 1901 - 208 strani |
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Stran 152 - With slow tread and still tread He scans the tented line; And he counts the battery guns By the gaunt and shadowy pine; And his slow tread and still tread Gives no warning sign.
Stran 74 - But for a year I have been attached to the army, and have not rendered any material service, while receiving a compensation for which I make no return. Yet I am not influenced by any expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.
Stran 104 - Thus, while fond virtue wished in vain to save, Hale, bright and generous, found a hapless grave; With genius' living flame his bosom glowed, And science charmed him to her sweet abode ; In worth's fair path his feet adventured far, The pride of peace, the rising grace of war.
Stran 151 - The guards of the camp on that dark dreary night, Had a murderous will, had a murderous will; They took him and bore him afar from the shore, To a hut on the hill, to a hut on the hill.
Stran 150 - In a nest by the road ; in a nest by the road. "For the tyrants are near, and with them appear, What bodes us no good; what bodes us no good." The brave captain heard it, and thought of his home, In a cot by the brook ; in a cot by the brook. With mother and sister and memories dear, He so gaily forsook ; he so gaily forsook. Cooling shades of the night were coming apace, The tattoo had beat; the tattoo had beat. The noble one sprang from his dark lurking place, To make his retreat ; to make his...
Stran 150 - Oh hu-ush!" As stilly stole by a bold legion of horse, For Hale in the bush, for Hale in the bush. "Keep still!" said the thrush as she nestled her young, In a nest by the road, in a nest by the road; "For the tyrants are near, and with them appear What bodes us no good, what bodes us no good.
Stran 151 - To drumbeat and heartbeat, A soldier marches by: There is color in his cheek, There is courage in his eye, — Yet to drumbeat and heartbeat In a moment he must die. By starlight and moonlight, He seeks the Briton's camp: He hears the rustling flag, And the armed sentry's tramp; And the starlight and moonlight His silent wanderings lamp.
Stran 74 - I wish to be useful, and every kind of service, necessary to the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.
Stran 82 - Dutch school-master, leaving all his other clothes, commission, public and private papers, with me, and also his silver shoe-buckles, saying they would not comport with his character of schoolmaster, and retaining nothing but his college diploma, as an introduction to his assumed calling. Thus equipped we parted for the last time in life. He went on his mission, and I returned back again to Norwalk, with orders to stop there until he should return, or hear from him, as he expected to return back...
Stran 151 - His errand from camp, of the ends to be gained; And said that was all, and said that was all. They took him and bound him and bore him away, Down the hill's grassy side, down the hill's grassy side. 'Twas there the base hirelings, in royal array, His cause did deride, his cause did deride. Five minutes were given, short moments, no more, For him to repent, for him to repent. He prayed for his mother, he asked not another; To Heaven he went, to Heaven he went. The faith of a martyr the tragedy...