Lyman Heath

Lyman Heath (mis-named in some accounts as Leonard Heath) (24 August 1804 – 30 July 1870) was an American vocalist and composer.

Quotes

• On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows
  Assail the stern rock, and the loud tempests rave,
  The hero lies still, while the dew-drooping willows,
  Like fond weeping mourners, lean over his grave.
  The lightnings may flash and the loud thunders rattle;
  He heeds not, he hears not, he's free from all pain;
  He sleeps his last sleep, he has fought his last battle;
  No sound can awake him to glory again!
  • The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).

• Yet spirit immortal, the tomb can not bind thee,
  But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun
  Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee
  A name which before thee no mortal hath won.
  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, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).

• Oft did I wonder why the setting sun
  Should look upon us with a blushing face:
  Is't not for shame of what he hath seen done,
  Whilst in our hemisphere he ran his race?
  • First Century, On the Setting Sun; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 70.