 The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ! No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few; On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And glory guards, with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead.  Famous Single and Fugitive Poems - Page 191edited by - 1890 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1886 - 564 pages
...SMITH. THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools - Charities - 1886 - 120 pages
...the conflict raged and so many brave men died. "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tente are spread. And Glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead!" There seems to me to be a wonderful resemblance between the nests of these defenceless little birds,... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 pages
...exceedingly interesting and are worthy of investigation. CHAPTER XII. GETTYSBURG, THE NATION'S SHRINE. "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." "58 soon as the result of the scries of engagements between the Federal and Confederate armies at Gettysburg... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 pages
...exceedingly interesting and are worthy of investigation. CHAPTER XH. GETTYSBURG, THE NATION'S SHRINE. "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." 58 soon as the result of the series of engagements between the Federal and Confederate armies at Gettysburg... | |
 | United States. 49th Congress, 2d session, 1886-1887 - 1887 - 236 pages
...battle or wasted away in hospital or prison pen. Henceforth he stands as a representative of the fallen. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. He died not of age or lingering decay. " His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." Within... | |
 | Charles Addison Partridge - Illinois - 1887 - 1188 pages
...Reports — Brief Descriptions of the Grounds— A List of the "Known" Dead, with Place of Interment. " On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents...guards, with solemn round. The bivouac of the dead." THE "Roll of Honor," published by the Government shortly after the close of the War of the Rebellion,... | |
 | Geo. C. Smithe - American literature - 1887 - 204 pages
...of their lives — what deeds they did, and how they died. .letter to the Cazenovia Republican. NN Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." " Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave; No impious footstep here shall tread... | |
 | Geo. C. Smithe - American literature - 1887 - 204 pages
...story of their lives — what deeds they did, and how they died. Letter to the Cazenovia Republican. \S Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are...guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." " Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead. Dear as the blood ye gave; Xo impious footstep here shall tread... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1887 - 402 pages
...angels of heaven ; and we turn away and leave them to sleep where " On Fame's eternal camping-ground, Their silent tents are spread; And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." January, CHAPTER XII. FREDERICKSBURG TO SUFFOLK. THE year 1863 dawned upon us in camp, engaged in the... | |
 | Albert Kendall Teele - Epitaphs - 1887 - 758 pages
...dreadful cannonade, The din and shout are past. " On fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents arc spread, And glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." THEODORE O'HARA. RECORD OF SOLDIERS LYING IN MILTON CEMETERY WHO HAVE DIED SINCE THE WAR. The roll... | |
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