National LyricsTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... truth , And left us , weak and frail and few , The censor's 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 ...
... truth , And left us , weak and frail and few , The censor's 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 ...
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... Truth and Love , Made mighty through the living God ! Down let the shrine of Moloch sink , And leave no traces where it stood ; Nor longer let its idol drink His daily cup of human blood : But rear another altar there , To Truth and ...
... Truth and Love , Made mighty through the living God ! Down let the shrine of Moloch sink , And leave no traces where it stood ; Nor longer let its idol drink His daily cup of human blood : But rear another altar there , To Truth and ...
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... truth which search and burn In warning and rebuke ; Feed fat , ye locusts , feed ! And , in your tasselled pulpits , thank the Lord That , from the toiling bondman's utter need , Ye pile your own full board . How long , O Lord ! how ...
... truth which search and burn In warning and rebuke ; Feed fat , ye locusts , feed ! And , in your tasselled pulpits , thank the Lord That , from the toiling bondman's utter need , Ye pile your own full board . How long , O Lord ! how ...
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... truths of God ! Their glory and their might Shall perish ; and their very names shall be Vile before all the people , in the light Of a world's liberty . Oh ! speed the moment on When Wrong shall cease- and Liberty , and Love , And Truth ...
... truths of God ! Their glory and their might Shall perish ; and their very names shall be Vile before all the people , in the light Of a world's liberty . Oh ! speed the moment on When Wrong shall cease- and Liberty , and Love , And Truth ...
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... Truth , our Country , and the Slave ? Of human skulls that shrine was made , Round which the priests of Mexico Before their loathsome idol prayed , S Is Freedom's altar fashioned so ? And must we yield to Freedom's God , As offering ...
... Truth , our Country , and the Slave ? Of human skulls that shrine was made , Round which the priests of Mexico Before their loathsome idol prayed , S Is Freedom's altar fashioned so ? And must we yield to Freedom's God , As offering ...
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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