National LyricsTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... scorn ; Yet held through all the paths we trod Our faith in man and trust in God . We prayed and hoped ; but still , with awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come ...
... scorn ; Yet held through all the paths we trod Our faith in man and trust in God . We prayed and hoped ; but still , with awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come ...
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... scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain ; To us , whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light- - Say , shall these writhing slaves of Wrong , Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What ! shall we send , with lavish ...
... scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain ; To us , whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light- - Say , shall these writhing slaves of Wrong , Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What ! shall we send , with lavish ...
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... and ask the like of us ! " Just God ! and shall we calmly rest , - The Christian's scorn the heathen's mirth- Content to live the lingering jest And by - word of a mocking Earth ? 2 10 Shall our own glorious land retain That curse which.
... and ask the like of us ! " Just God ! and shall we calmly rest , - The Christian's scorn the heathen's mirth- Content to live the lingering jest And by - word of a mocking Earth ? 2 10 Shall our own glorious land retain That curse which.
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... scorn of the proud in the cause of the slave : — Will the sons of such men yield the lords of the South One brow for the brand - for the padlock one mouth ? They cater to tyrants ? They rivet the chain , Which their fathers smote off ...
... scorn of the proud in the cause of the slave : — Will the sons of such men yield the lords of the South One brow for the brand - for the padlock one mouth ? They cater to tyrants ? They rivet the chain , Which their fathers smote off ...
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... lines or wrestling with the storms ; Free as the winds they drive before , rough as the waves they roam , They laugh to scorn the slaver's threat against their rocky home . What means the Old Dominion ? Hath she forgot the.
... lines or wrestling with the storms ; Free as the winds they drive before , rough as the waves they roam , They laugh to scorn the slaver's threat against their rocky home . What means the Old Dominion ? Hath she forgot the.
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