 With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock. His sword was in...  Works: Life and Letters - Page 80by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Alice B. Macdonald - 1911 - 630 pages
...land-breeze shook the shrouds And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought, Hia work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1912 - 502 pages
...for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea fight is fought, His work of glory done. 10 It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock...She ran upon no rock. His sword was in its sheath, 15 His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men. — Weigh the vessel... | |
 | Edward Bliss Reed - 1912 - 638 pages
...pride, pomp and circumstance of the Pindaric odes than these verses, simple as the old ballads : " It was not in the battle, No tempest gave the shock,...fatal leak, She ran upon no rock; His sword was in the sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down^ With twice four hundred men."1 Cowper... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 624 pages
...shook the shrouds, And she was over set ; Down went the Royal George, With all her sails complete. 4 Toll for the Brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone : His...last sea-fight is fought ; His work of glory done. 5 It was not in the battle, No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1913 - 104 pages
...land-breeze shook the shrouds And she was overset; 10 Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought, 15 His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 pages
...land-breeze shook the shrouds And she was overset ; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His last sea-fight is fought, i, „,,,.. »» His work of glory done.' This is the very economy of words. Every syllable tells,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1914 - 142 pages
...all her crew complete. Toll for the braveBrave Kempenfelt is gone His last sea-fight is fought, 15 His work of glory done. It was not in the battle,...shock, She sprang no fatal leak, She ran upon no rock ; to His sword was in the sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - 1915 - 232 pages
...breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone ; His...shock: She sprang no fatal leak; She ran upon no rock. 94 His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down, With twice four hundred men. Weigh the vessel... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 pages
...shook the shrouds, And she was overset ; 10 Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. dden silence, or the whispers low, Or the old eyes dissolving at >5 20 His sword was in its sheatk ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...; io Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave f Brave Keuipenfelt their silks, and knaves their wi 20 Hie sword was in its sheath ; His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four... | |
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