Wartime and Patriotic Selections for Recitation and ReadingShrewsbury Publishing Company, 1918 - 159 pages |
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... pain In destiny - spelling hours . The old world breaks Its mold , and life runs fierce and fluid , a stream That floods , dissolves , remakes . Each pregnant moment , charged to its extreme , Quickens unending future ; and all's vain ...
... pain In destiny - spelling hours . The old world breaks Its mold , and life runs fierce and fluid , a stream That floods , dissolves , remakes . Each pregnant moment , charged to its extreme , Quickens unending future ; and all's vain ...
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... pain . " Old Glory , " through new stains and rents , Partakes of Freedom's sacraments . Into that hell his will creates We drive the foe - his lusts , his hates . Last come , we will be last to stay , Till Right has had her crowning ...
... pain . " Old Glory , " through new stains and rents , Partakes of Freedom's sacraments . Into that hell his will creates We drive the foe - his lusts , his hates . Last come , we will be last to stay , Till Right has had her crowning ...
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... pain , Or marching through the desert sand To some dread place that they may never gain . God guide him and his men today ! Though death may lurk in any tree or hill , His brave young spirit is their stay , Trusting in that they'll ...
... pain , Or marching through the desert sand To some dread place that they may never gain . God guide him and his men today ! Though death may lurk in any tree or hill , His brave young spirit is their stay , Trusting in that they'll ...
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... pain . We fell , we lay , we slumbered , we took rest , With the wild nerves quiet at last , and the vexed brain Cleared of the wingèd nightmares , and the breast Freed of the heavy dreams of hearts afar . We rose at last under the ...
... pain . We fell , we lay , we slumbered , we took rest , With the wild nerves quiet at last , and the vexed brain Cleared of the wingèd nightmares , and the breast Freed of the heavy dreams of hearts afar . We rose at last under the ...
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... pain afar ; I am you doing what you would If you were only where you could— Your avatar . The cross which on my arm I wear , The flag which o'er my breast I bear , Is but the sign Of what you'd sacrifice for him Who suffers on the ...
... pain afar ; I am you doing what you would If you were only where you could— Your avatar . The cross which on my arm I wear , The flag which o'er my breast I bear , Is but the sign Of what you'd sacrifice for him Who suffers on the ...
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Wartime and Patriotic Selections: For Recitation and Readin (1918) Carleton B. Case No preview available - 2009 |
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ALAN SEEGER AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR American armies arms banner battle bells blood Boche brave breath British CHORUS comes dared dark dead dear dreams dust dying England eyes fathers fear field fight had told flag flame Flanders foes France Freedom freedom-this I know friends GEORGE STERLING glorious glory gray Grimsby Town guns hand hath hear heard and obeyed heart Heaven Highland laddie honor hope Jimmy Morgan JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE kiss knots of tape LAURENCE BINYON liberty light lives Lord luck Man's Land mighty morning nation never night old mouth-organ pain peace rendezvous with Death roar roll rose Sheath shell sing soldier Somebody's darling song soul stand star-spangled banner Star-spangled battle-flag stars storm strife sweet Sword tears thee things THOMAS BUCHANAN READ thou thought trenches wild WILFRID WILSON GIBSON wind
Popular passages
Page 124 - Peace, peace ! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle ? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death ! Patrick Henry...
Page 138 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and, upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England! and saint George ! [Exeunt.
Page 130 - We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 91 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on.
Page 96 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.
Page 25 - If I should die, think only this of me : That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
Page 89 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream.
Page 24 - It may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear.
Page 122 - What terms shall we find, which have not already been exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions...
Page 131 - ... that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.