The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.'* Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls of their castles. Ivanhoe - Page 87by Walter Scott - 1923 - 514 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Young - 1863 - 258 pages
...up the recollection of the bright examples of Chivalry. It is true that — " The knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust," — but their memorials still remain. "The ample page, Eich with the spoils of time," teaches us each,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 354 pages
...devices, their colours, and the embroidery of their horse trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary...rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.* * These lines are part of an unpublished poem by Coleridge, whose Their escutcheons have long mouldered... | |
 | Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Encampment (Mass. and R.I.) - 1864 - 978 pages
...all the pomp and circumstance of war" are recited now but in poetry and song. " The Knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust." You have to-day, Sir Knights, on your own petition, arisen from the position of ward to the parent... | |
 | Thomas Nicholas - 1872 - 524 pages
...— once the lords of many acres, the holders of great entertainments, warriors and statesmen : — " The knights are dust. And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust." The Progress is not unmindful of heraldry. " The paternall coat of the Mansells is — Argent, a chevron... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1872 - 346 pages
...memory — how little have they left to benefit posterity, or add to the world's stock of ideas ! " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust; Their souls are with the saints we trust." It was otherwise with the assembly whose history we are now to trace. They live in their writings ;... | |
 | 1880 - 686 pages
...one's eyes for an instant and think of all the generations who have worshipped there in youth or age ! The knights are dust And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the Saints, we trust. Chapel over, and a little business transacted with the cheery Manciple in Governors' Room, the crowd... | |
 | Thomas Nicholas - 1872 - 528 pages
...— once the lords of many acres, the holders of great entertainments, warriors and statesmen : — " The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust." The Progress is not unmindful of heraldry. " The paternall coat of the Mansells is — Argent, a chevron... | |
 | Sir James Allanson Picton - 1873 - 664 pages
...Customhouse. Edward Moore. So the old Tower passed away, and left not a wreck behind : The knights are dust, Their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust. The site of the Tower was sold to the great house of Bailey Brothers, ironmasters of South Wales, and... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...Crusaders lying on the pavement with their legs crossed, in token that they had served in the Holy Land. "The knights are dust. And their good swords are rust. Their souls are with the saints, we trust.ii These are not effigies of the Knights Templars — for they do not wear the mantle of that... | |
 | Alfred Hayman Cummings - 1875 - 314 pages
...lamenting this, asks mournfully, " But where are their habitations ? Alas ! their escutcheons have long ago mouldered from the walls of their castles. Their castles...the place that once knew them knows them no more. How beautifully true ! No longer does the champing war-horse paw in the castle-yard ! The helmet which... | |
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