 Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.  The National Register - Page 3521819Full view - About this book
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 pages
...glances glow, And cowering foes shall fall beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the bravo. When Death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...cowering foes shall fall beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. 4. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall...wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to Heaven and thee ; And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - Dialogues - 1869 - 208 pages
...messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When di'ath, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1870 - 340 pages
...sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas 1 on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave....rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, ** And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below The lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; When...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. • Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stara shall glitter o'er the brave; When death, careering...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | 1870 - 596 pages
...46. Montenegro. 47. Portuguese. 48. Truant. 49. Upland. 50. Paranapanema. 51. Colic. 52. Young. 53. " When Death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail." ' Hvacinth answers all but 34, 35, 38, 47Tempy answers all but 32, 34, 35, 47, 53Hero answers all but... | |
 | Freeman Henry Morris Murray - African Americans - 1916 - 330 pages
...portrayal of a naval action. We have come to think this sort of action is characteristic of naval men — When Death careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail ; And frightened waves rush wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack ! But the sculptor has reminded... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1917 - 426 pages
...meteor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant prm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas! on Ocean's...sail. And frighted waves rush wildly back. Before the broadsides reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And... | |
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