 Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick alarming drum. "Let me of my heart take counsel: War is not of life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come?" But the drum Echoed, "Come! Death shall reap the braver harvest,"...  Overland Monthly - Page 741883Full view - About this book
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 pages
...War is not of life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come? But the drum Echoed, 'Come! Death shall reap the braver harvest,' said the solemn-sounding drum. 'But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom? What if conquest,... | |
 | 1893 - 472 pages
...is not of life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come? " But the drum Echoed: "Come! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemn-sounding drum. " But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom ? What if... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1896 - 500 pages
...is not of life the sum ; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come ? " But the drum Echoed, " Come ! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemnsounding drum. " But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom ? What if conquest,... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...War is not of life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come? But the drum Echoed, ' Come ! Death shall reap the braver harvest,' said the solemn-sounding drum. 'But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom? What if conquest,... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - 1897 - 368 pages
...sum ; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come ? " But the drum Ech6ed, "Come! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemn sounding drum. "The Reveille." Lord Tennyson is the author of a soul-stirring poem in dactylic rhythm. The second stanza... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1898 - 392 pages
...Whistling shot and bursting bomb, When my brothers fall around me, Should my heart grow cold and numb?' But the drum Answered, ' Come ! Belter there in death united, than in life a recreant, — Come ! ' " —BRET HARTE. Foil weeks the British and Prussian armies, scattered over a district 100 miles... | |
 | R. L. Paget - 1898 - 474 pages
...is not of life the sum ; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come ? " But the drum Echoed, " Come ! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemn-sounding drum. " But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom ? What if... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 360 pages
...War is not of Life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come?" But the drum Echoed, "Come! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemn-sounding drum. "But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom? What if conquest,... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1899 - 318 pages
...is not of Life the sum ; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come ? " But the drum Echoed, " Come ! Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the solemnsounding drum. " But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom ? What if conquest,... | |
 | 1902 - 778 pages
...the sum ; Hm'e Who shall stay and reap the harvest Country When the autumn days shall come?" ^ But the drum Echoed, " Come !. Death shall reap the braver harvest," said the Solemn-sounding drum. " But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom ? What if... | |
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