An Oration Delivered Before the Newburyport Artillery Company Upon Their Fifty-eighth Anniversary, July 4th, 1836Press of Morss and Brewster, 1836 - 24 páginas |
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Página 24 - She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there...
Página 24 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Página 16 - States recognizes the fact that a "well regulated militia" is "necessary to the security of a free State.
Página 13 - in regard of many appearances of danger towards the -country,** " a council of war was appointed in 1652, vested with full power "to issue warrants to press men, and to give commissions to chief officers," the venerable Standish was among •
Página 14 - Rolf; twenty or thirty houses were burned, and the rest plundered. Such had been the loss of men in Massachusetts, by their dreadful wars with the French and Indians, that, in 1713, the province had not doubled in half a century. The same observations may be made respecting the period from 1722 to 1762. Had the French, in Canada, been subdued...
Página 15 - For it was at a time when the first flush of enthusiasm had...