Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6271847Full view - About this book
 | Noel Annan - 1997 - 300 pages
...cross the bridge and who echoed Horatius in thinking: And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods? Nor is it wrong to see Roosevelt, the American Scipio, as the man who gave hope to his countrymen during... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful - life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glo 6840 Lays of Ancient Rome 'Horatius' Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?... | |
 | Peter S. Carmichael - 1998 - 228 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods? The drivers put their whips against the flanks of their horses "with a cheer." As the battery's caissons... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 2001 - 193 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh, soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing dreadful odds For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods ! " It would be rather an interesting thing to compare the different stories about the three who held... | |
 | James Harvey Kidd - 2001 - 174 pages
...every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods. NOTES 1. Kidd refers to a gathering of the Grand Army of the Republic, the principal Union veterans'... | |
 | Gregory J. W. Urwin - 2002 - 784 pages
...every man upon this earth Death comedi soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods." Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Horatius,' from Lays of Ancient Rome I THE PLACE * * * * * I "AN EPIC THAT... | |
 | Alfred L. Brophy - 2003 - 212 pages
...Defending the Temples of Their Gods: Greenwood Bunkers Down And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? The Outlook59 But our boys who learned the lesson On the blood-stained soil of France How to fight... | |
 | Mary Whatley Clarke - 2003 - 194 pages
...that gallant Cherokee warrior might well have said: "And how can man die better, /Than facing fearful odds /For the ashes of his fathers/ And the temples of his gods." But Horatius was more fortunate.1 He held his bridge. Chief Bowles died on that field of battle, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis - 2002 - 289 pages
..."Horatio at the Bridge." Death comes but once to all, Then how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods? " Cheers resounded and officers offered their arms to escort Lucy about the camp. She made the most... | |
 | Herb Galewitz - 2003 - 68 pages
...light to see that duty. Good-bye. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR And how can a man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? THOMAS MACAU i AY A fatherland is an association on the same soil of the living and the dead, with... | |
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