American Patriotic Prose and VerseMrs. Ruth Frances (Davis) Stevens, Ruth Frances Davis Stevens, David Harrison Stevens A.C. McClurg & Company, 1917 - 171 pages A chronologically arranged collection of patriotic literature, with subjects ranging from Columbus to World War I. |
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... duty sounds her silent call . 1 From Nathan Hale , the Ideal Patriot . Funk & Wagnalls Company . Used by permission . With head erect he moves and stately pace , To 36 American Patriotic Prose and Verse We will ne'er forget the bellman ...
... duty sounds her silent call . 1 From Nathan Hale , the Ideal Patriot . Funk & Wagnalls Company . Used by permission . With head erect he moves and stately pace , To 36 American Patriotic Prose and Verse We will ne'er forget the bellman ...
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... duties done Simply as breathing , a world's honors worn . As life's indifferent gifts to all men born ; Dumb for himself , unless it were to God , But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent , Tramping the snow to coral where they trod ...
... duties done Simply as breathing , a world's honors worn . As life's indifferent gifts to all men born ; Dumb for himself , unless it were to God , But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent , Tramping the snow to coral where they trod ...
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... duty , And the service of man be life's glory supreme . Not with gold , nor with gems , But with evergreens vernal , And the flags that the nations in brotherhood span , Crown , crown we the chief of the heroes eternal , Whose honor was ...
... duty , And the service of man be life's glory supreme . Not with gold , nor with gems , But with evergreens vernal , And the flags that the nations in brotherhood span , Crown , crown we the chief of the heroes eternal , Whose honor was ...
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... duty in events that may happen to us . Let us cherish genuine patriotism . In that , there is a sort of inspiration that gives strength and energy almost more than human . When the mind is attached to a great object , it grows to the ...
... duty in events that may happen to us . Let us cherish genuine patriotism . In that , there is a sort of inspiration that gives strength and energy almost more than human . When the mind is attached to a great object , it grows to the ...
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... ? New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still , and onward , who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo , before us gleam her camp - fires ! American Patriotic Prose and Verse 77.
... ? New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still , and onward , who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo , before us gleam her camp - fires ! American Patriotic Prose and Verse 77.
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Page 23 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 23 - Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 67 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Page 2 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 4 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : " Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say...
Page 58 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans ; we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 61 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave ! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
Page 41 - Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Page 24 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
Page 78 - 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.