 | International peace society - 232 pages
...endless groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for morcy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns;... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pages
...dead. To him must be assigned " the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony, the endless groan, The tumult of each sacked and burning village, The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of carnage, The wail of famine in beleagered towns. The bursting shell,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...harness rings the Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, 15 And loud amid the universal clamor, O'er distant deserts sounds...teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. 5 The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The shout, that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...Norseman's song, IS * And loud amid the universal clamor, On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer, I hear the Florentine, who from his palace Wheels...teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. 5 The tumult of each sacked and burning village; The shout, that every prayer for mercy drowns; The... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...Norseman's song ; And loud amid the universal clamour, O'er distant deserts, sounds the Tartar gongI hear the Florentine, who from his palace Wheels out...battle-bell with dreadful din, And Aztec priests, upon the teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums, made of ser pent' s skin. The tumult of each sacked and burning... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, And loud, amid the universal clamour, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. I hear...And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war drums made of serpent's skin : The tumult of each sacked and burning village, The shout that every... | |
 | Gems - 1850 - 204 pages
...Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song ; And loud, amid the universal clamour, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. I hear...upon their teocallis, Beat the wild war-drums made of serpents' skin. The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...Norseman's song, And loud, amid the universal clamor^ O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild...of serpent's skin ; The tumult of each sacked and turning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst... | |
 | Gems - 1851 - 206 pages
...Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song; And loud, amid the universal clamour, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. I hear...dreadful din ; And Aztec priests upon their teocallis, The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, And loud, amid the universal clamour, O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong. I hear...dreadful din, And Aztec priests upon their teocallis The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The... | |
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Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer, Through Cimbric forest roars the Norseman's song, And loud, amid the universal clamor, O'er distant deserts sounds the... 
