 Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,...  Modern Eloquence - Page 1198by Thomas Brackett Reed - 1900Full view - About this book
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...last silence comes ; These all are goue, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold lus fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. — Atlantic Monthly. 288 LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.— NO. 1120.- 18 NOVEMBER, 1865. From the Fortnightly... | |
 | 1890 - 524 pages
...Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man ; Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Ymddengys i ni yn ddirgelwch na buasai yr ystorm ofnadwy gynnyrchwyd gan y Rhyfel Cartrefol wedí puro... | |
 | 1900 - 300 pages
...shall behold his fame, The kiudly-eaiucst, brave, fort&eeing mnii, Sagacious patient, <lrt'iuliu« praise not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first...it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must also be the verdict of history. He would be a rash man who should say he understood Abraham Lincoln.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. xv VII. Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1867 - 480 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. VII. Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal . Outside of Self,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American, LH — ^THE MAIN TRUCK, OB A LEAP FOR LIFE. GP MORRIS. 1. Old Ironsides at anchor lay, In the harbor... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. LH.-THE MAIN TRUCK, OR A LEAP FOR LIFE, GP MORRIS. 1. Old Ironsides at anchor lay, la the harbor of... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...time. And can his fame abide. Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American."1 I have still, however, several countries to speak of tonight, and must break off attempting... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Such poetry as this makes one wish that somehow the customs of the republic could have devolved the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold bis fame, The kindly-earnest, bravo, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. vn. Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self,... | |
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