Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Tho' nations may combat, and war's thunders rattle,

No more on thy steed wilt thou sweep o'er the plain:

Thou sleep'st thy last sleep, thou hast fought thy last battle,

No sound can awake thee to glory again.

The Grave of Bonaparte.

Footnotes

[666:1] This song was composed and set to music, about 1842, by Leonard Heath, of Nashua, who died a few years ago.—Bela Chapin: The Poets of New Hampshire, 1883, p. 760.

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BAYARD TAYLOR.  1825-1878.

Till the sun grows cold,