All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave we make our song:

Darkness the curtain drops o'er life's dull scene:

“Oh, I see,” he cried, “‘From o'er the threshold’ means that we must stand on the wall directly above the gatehouse.”

It was like I was watching some other boy ’stead of me picking Pap up and going o'er to Spangler with my pa in his arms.

The singer stopped singing during the line "o'er the ramparts we watched," Time magazine reported, to peek at his hand to see what the next words were.