The West Point Scrap Book: A Collection of Stories, Songs, and Legends of the United States Military Academy

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D. Van Nostrand, 1871 - 339 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 124 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Pàgina 257 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Pàgina 214 - The snow-flake that the cliff receives — The diamonds of the showers — Spring's tender blossoms, buds and leaves — The sisterhood of flowers — Morn's early beam — eve's balmy breeze — Her purity define: — But Ida's dearer far than these To this fond breast of mine.
Pàgina 28 - Nought is seen in the vault on high. But the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky. And the flood which rolls its milky hue,— A river of light on the welkin blue. The moon looks down on old Crow Nest, She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast And seems his huge grey form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below...
Pàgina 60 - Come, fill your glasses, fellows, and stand up in a row; To singing sentimentally, we're going for to go; In the Army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow, So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens, oh!
Pàgina 28 - Cronest: She mellows the shades on his shaggy breast, And seems his huge gray form to throw In a silver cone on the wave below; His sides are broken by spots...

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