 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 lehte
...people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. JOHN BURNS, OF GETTYSBURG.—FB HARTE. HAVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns...of Gettysburg ?—No ? Ah, well; Brief is the glory the hero earns, Briefer the story of poor John Burns; 2» He was the fellow who won renown— The only... | |
 | John Swett - 1867 - 252 lehte
...people, and foi the people, shall not perish from the earth. JOHN BURNS, OF GETTYSBURG.— FB HAKTJE. HAVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg?— No't Ah, well; Brief is the glory the hero earns, Briefer the story of poor John Burns 2* He was the... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1872 - 410 lehte
...viais! .•» " A chunk of old red sandstone look him in the nM,>men. " JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG. T TAVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg? — No? Ah, well! Brief ia the glory that hero earns, Briefer the story of poor John Burns : He was the fellow who won renown,... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1873 - 164 lehte
...broke up our society upon the Stanislow. -POEMS FROM 1860 TO 1868. JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG. IT AVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of...the fellow who won renown,— • The only man who did n't back down When the rebels rode through his native town: But held his own in the fight next... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - 1875 - 460 lehte
...of the old hero, and Bret Harte, in his characteristic way, has thus vividly portrayed him in song : Have you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns...native town ; But held his own in the fight next day. . . . I might tell how, but the day before, John Burns stood at his cottage door, Looking down the... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 162 lehte
...broke up our society upon the Stanislow. POEMS FROM 1860 TO 1868. JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG. IT AVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of...was the fellow who won renown,— The only man who did n't back down When the rebels rode through his native town: But held his own in the fight next... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 164 lehte
...broke up our society upon the Stanislow. I POEMS FROM 1860 TO 1868. JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG. TJ AVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of...was the fellow who won renown,— The only man who did n't back down When the rebels rode through his native town: But held his own in the fight next... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 296 lehte
...and energies Was given to teach us all the free man's sacred duty ! * * * JOHN BURNS OF GETTYSBURG. HAVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns...was the fellow who won renown, — The only man who did n't back down When the rebels rode through his native town, But held his own in the fight next... | |
 | 1876 - 734 lehte
...tell Of John Burns of Gettysburg?— Xo? All, well . Brief is the glory that hero earns, Briefer tlio story of poor John Burns ; He was the fellow who won...his native town ; But held his own in the fight next (lay, "When all his townsfolk ran away. That was in July, sixty-throe, — The very day that General... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1878 - 400 lehte
...presents a parallel to Dickens, between whose genius and his own there is also some resemblance.] 1. HAVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg ? No ? Ah, well: — Brief 1 is the glory that hero earns, Briefer the story of poor John Burns : He was the fellow who won renown... | |
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HAVE you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg?— No? Ah, well: Brief is the glory that hero earns, Briefer the story of poor John Burns: He was the fellow who won renown, — The only man who didn't back down When the rebels rode... 
