National LyricsTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... painful work to do . Thenceforth our life a fight became , The air we breathed was hot with blame ; For not with gauged and softened tone We made the bondman's cause our own . We bore , as Freedom's hope forlorn , The private hate , the ...
... painful work to do . Thenceforth our life a fight became , The air we breathed was hot with blame ; For not with gauged and softened tone We made the bondman's cause our own . We bore , as Freedom's hope forlorn , The private hate , the ...
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... pain , To their cheerless homes again There no brother's voice shall greet them - There no father's welcome meet them . Gone , gone sold and gone , To the rice - swamp dank and lone , From Virginia's hills and waters , Woe is me , my ...
... pain , To their cheerless homes again There no brother's voice shall greet them - There no father's welcome meet them . Gone , gone sold and gone , To the rice - swamp dank and lone , From Virginia's hills and waters , Woe is me , my ...
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... pain ; ― Where the cant of Democracy dwells on the lips Of the forgers of fetters , and wielders of whips ! Where " chivalric " honor means really no more Than scourging of women , and robbing the poor ! Where the Moloch of Slavery ...
... pain ; ― Where the cant of Democracy dwells on the lips Of the forgers of fetters , and wielders of whips ! Where " chivalric " honor means really no more Than scourging of women , and robbing the poor ! Where the Moloch of Slavery ...
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... pain , And counting each trial for Truth as their gain ! And that bold - hearted yeomanry , honest and true , Who , haters of fraud , give to labor its due ; Whose fathers , of old , sang in concert with thine , On the banks of Swetara ...
... pain , And counting each trial for Truth as their gain ! And that bold - hearted yeomanry , honest and true , Who , haters of fraud , give to labor its due ; Whose fathers , of old , sang in concert with thine , On the banks of Swetara ...
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... pain ! Is the tyrant's brand upon thee ? Did the brutal cravens aim To make God's truth thy falsehood , his holiest work thy shame ? When , all blood - quenched , from the torture the iron was withdrawn , How laughed their evil angel ...
... pain ! Is the tyrant's brand upon thee ? Did the brutal cravens aim To make God's truth thy falsehood , his holiest work thy shame ? When , all blood - quenched , from the torture the iron was withdrawn , How laughed their evil angel ...
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50 cents ALFRED TENNYSON altars angels BARBARA FRIETCHIE beneath blazing blessed blood bondman's brand brave breath brow calm chain CHIOS curse dank and lone dark dead dumb earth evil eyes fall Faneuil Hall fathers fear fetters fire flag Freedom's God's gold gone sold grave gray hand hate hath heard heart Heaven hills and waters holy hope human land Liberty light lips look Lord Massachusetts mercy MITHRIDATES Moloch Mother mountain mountain men NATIONAL LYRICS nebber you hear night Northern o'er pain Pilgrim Poems poor PORT ROYAL prayer rice-swamp dank round Saxon scorn shadow shadow fall shame slave slavery Slavery's sold and gone song soul stand stars stolen daughters storm strong sunny valleys tears thee thine thou TICKNOR AND FIELDS To-day toiling tread trod truth unto Virginia Virginia's hills voice wave wild winds words wrong Ximena