 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...burning decA, | Whence all but him had fled ; | The flame that lit the battle's wrecA, | Shone round Aim o'er the dead. | Yet beautiful and bright he stood,...; | A creature of heroic blood, | A proud, though child-liAe form. | The flames roll'd on — | he would not go, | Without Ais father's word;| That father,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 372 pages
...fate had given CASABIANCA.1 THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud : — " Say, Father, say If yet my task is done ? " He knew not that the chieftain lay... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1845 - 360 pages
...search of thee ! CASABIANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. He call'd aloud : — « Say, Father, say If yet my task is done ?" He knew not that the chieftain lay... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...flames had reached the powder. The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...CAMPBELL. CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck, • Whence all but him had fled ; The flame, that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er...blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on ; — he would not go Without his father's word ; . That father, — faint in death below,... | |
 | 1843 - 826 pages
...had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. * Mrs. Hr-mans. " Yet beautiful and bright he stood As born to rule...blood, A proud, though child-like form. " The flames rolled on — he wouW not go, Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death below, His voice... | |
 | 1843 - 778 pages
...to rule the storm, A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. " The flames rolled on — he would not go, Without his father's word...faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. " He call'd aloud — ' eay, father say, If yet my task is done ?' He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1843 - 192 pages
...LESSON LI. CASABLANCA.* THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him | o'er...de'ad ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood , As born to rille the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...blood, Yet beautiful and bright he stood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames rolled on—he would not go, Without his father's word; That father,...death below, His voice no longer heard. He called aloud:—"Say, father, say, If yet my task is done?" He knew not that the chieftain lay Unconscious... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1843 - 180 pages
...Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him | o'er the d^ad ; Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heretic blood, A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on — he would not go, Without his... | |
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THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm — A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike... 
