Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
William Collins. 17211759458. How sleep the Brave
HOW sleep the brave, who sink to rest | |
By all their country’s wishes blest! | |
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, | |
Returns to deck their hallow’d mould, | |
She there shall dress a sweeter sod | 5 |
Than Fancy’s feet have ever trod. | |
By fairy hands their knell is rung; | |
By forms unseen their dirge is sung; | |
There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, | |
To bless the turf that wraps their clay; | 10 |
And Freedom shall awhile repair | |
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there! |