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" And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass... "
The every-day book: or The guide to the year - Page 805
by William Hone - 1859
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British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge ...

Curtis Hidden Page, Stith Thompson - English poetry - 1929 - 1078 pages
...The stirring memory of a thousand years, And F.van's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears : : +ƫ é " F M I m uT% ef Y$ɿ" 4ٖ 7+^S +* ^ oTN kLjV ! Kre evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next...
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The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English Language

James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's cars ! And Ardennes waves above them her gre*n leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass,...Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturuiug brave, — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass, Which now beneath them, but...
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Mind in Creation: Essays on English Romantic Literature in Honour of Ross G ...

Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 200 pages
...as well as for grass. Here are the lines that do it all: first the ones about how those soldiers are "Ere evening to be trodden like the grass / Which now beneath them, but above shall grow" and then the succeeding ones about how The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evau's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears ! xxvn. And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy...Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturniug brave, — alas I Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, bnt...
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Selected Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's1 fame rings in each clansman's ears! 235 And Ardennes2 waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's...brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass 240 Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living...
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Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Morton D. Paley - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 338 pages
...Childe Haroldlll in the beautiful lines on the dead at Ardennes, which offer a post-apocalyptic peace: And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy...inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas!12 The natural world in Byron's poetry can be seen as potentially millennial, although that...
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A Yankee at Arms: The Diary of Lieutenant Augustus D. Ayling, 29th ...

Augustus D. Ayling - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 332 pages
...to Waterloo came to me: Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewey with nature's tear drops, as they pass; Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. These lines haunted me all day and seemed to be ominous. After we had crossed the pontoon, my captain,...
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From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology II

Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!22'21 And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves,24 Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving,...grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow 240 In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with...
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The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac

Jeffry D. Wert - History - 2005 - 598 pages
..."Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewey with nature's tear drops, as they pass; Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. Ayling confided in his diary, the "lines haunted me all day and seemed to be ominous."59 Members of...
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